- Sydney Rose Maubert
- Queen of the Swamp: The Saltwater Railroad, 2024
- Digital Collage
- Framed: 24 x 16 in
- Inv: 2023.06.01
The following drawing is a map that acknowledges the Afro-Indigenous history and intersectionality of the Florida Everglades through the history of Black Caribbean and Seminole people who together stewarded the land. The map deploys archival images of Black and Seminole people living in the Everglades with modern local aesthetics. This project seeks to solve the estrangement of Black people in Greater Miami from knowing their heritage and practices of maroonage within the context of the Everglades. It offers a more generous lens on our understanding of relationships to land and kinship with our Indigenous communities and ancestors. It opens up a dialogue about our historical and contemporary understandings of stewardship, offering modern-day Black aesthetic practices in Miami as an evolution or creolization of Indigeneity.
- Current Location: Everglades National Park - AIRIE Nest Gallery
- Collections: 2023 Alumni, Category: Visual Arts, Everglades National Park Collection