{"id":61612,"date":"2021-09-23T02:17:06","date_gmt":"2021-09-23T02:17:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=61612"},"modified":"2021-09-23T02:17:07","modified_gmt":"2021-09-23T02:17:07","slug":"being-biracial-and-more-recently-bicoastal-having-been-away-from-her-l-a-home-during-the-residency-theres-a-sense-of-a-constant-effort-of-recentering-and-reworking-through-a-whole-host","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=61612","title":{"rendered":"Being biracial and, more recently, bicoastal (having been away from her L.A. home during the residency), there\u2019s a sense of a constant effort of recentering and reworking through a whole host of feelings that\u2019s relatable for many people, especially during this time of reckoning with the state of race, health, and politics in our country."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Looking at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.genevievegaignard.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">[Genevieve] Gaignard\u2019s<\/a> work, you can see what she might be trying to work through\u2014feelings of home, identity, family, and belonging. Being biracial and, more recently, bicoastal (having been away from her <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Los_Angeles\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">L.A.<\/a> home during the residency), there\u2019s a sense of a constant effort of recentering and reworking through a whole host of feelings that\u2019s relatable for many people, especially during this time of reckoning with the state of race, health, and politics in our country. \u201cSometimes I think, \u2018How many feelings can you hold on to?\u2019\u201d she said. \u201cI can put this particular feeling here or this mood can live here,\u201d she added, nodding to the way her works become vessels for her emotions and concerns.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Dominique Clayton, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=61602\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Genevieve Gaignard\u2019s Timely Work Documents Racial Injustice and Calls for Change<\/a>,\u201d <em>Artsy<\/em>, October 13, 2020. <a href=\"http:\/\/Looking at Gaignard\u2019s work, you can see what she might be trying to work through\u2014feelings of home, identity, family, and belonging. Being biracial and, more recently, bicoastal (having been away from her L.A. home during the residency), there\u2019s a sense of a constant effort of recentering and reworking through a whole host of feelings that\u2019s relatable for many people, especially during this time of reckoning with the state of race, health, and politics in our country. \u201cSometimes I think, \u2018How many feelings can you hold on to?\u2019\u201d she said. \u201cI can put this particular feeling here or this mood can live here,\u201d she added, nodding to the way her works become vessels for her emotions and concerns.  Dominique Clayton, \u201cGenevieve Gaignard\u2019s Timely Work Documents Racial Injustice and Calls for Change,\u201d Artsy, October 13, 2020. https:\/\/www.artsy.net\/article\/artsy-editorial-genevieve-gaignards-timely-work-documents-racial-injustice-calls-change. http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=61602\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-wplink-url-error=\"true\">https:\/\/www.artsy.net\/article\/artsy-editorial-genevieve-gaignards-timely-work-documents-racial-injustice-calls-change<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looking at [Genevieve] Gaignard\u2019s work, you can see what she might be trying to work through\u2014feelings of home, identity, family, and belonging. Being biracial and, more recently, bicoastal (having been away from her L.A. home during the residency), there\u2019s a sense of a constant effort of recentering and reworking through a whole host of feelings [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[31040,31958,22811],"class_list":["post-61612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-artsy","tag-dominique-clayton","tag-genevieve-gaignard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61612"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61613,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61612\/revisions\/61613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}