Destiny  Green

Destiny J. Green is a Chickasaw, Oklahoma-based artist residing within the Chickasaw Nation. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Texas at Austin and has completed a residency with the School of Visual Arts. Green’s artistic practice has extended across many media and disciplines including lithographic printmaking, paper and fiber sculpture, digital video, and digital photography. Her photography illustrates transitional space, temporal distance, states of paramnesia, and the uncanny utilizing light and digital media manipulation. Green is the proud mother of two brilliant children.

Incho'wa

Medium: Digital Photography Diptych

Each panel is 24" x 30" 

$400

Incho’wa is a Chikashanompa word meaning tattoo, and it has served as a moniker for my ongoing portrait series. This body of work celebrates the revitalization of southeastern ancestral markings by documenting those that bear them. The portraits feature Indigenous people photographed in a 1930s film aesthetic and dressed in traditional regalia, contemporary regalia, or clothing that represents the bearer’s connection to their southeastern Indigenous community. The style of the images is rooted in the portrait photography of the predominantly white and conventional promotional images used in the past to market beauty standards that excluded Indigenous people. This period also continued to reinforce tattooing as a taboo. The photo set utilizes the visual language once used to reject the beauty of Indigenous people to highlight their continued existence and the ever-evolving exquisiteness and style inherent to the bearers of incho’wa.