Siren Leilani Bustamante Nylon Magazine

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Extrapolating from a local observation

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she has spent a great deal of time working up a personal body of work whose inspiration stems from mythology

She translates this loss into the powerful imagery of the toy gun (the “playful” or distorted appropriation of an object of violence) as a thing of beauty and pride in the form of taxidermy

Siren Leilani Bustamante Nylon MagazineDetails About Oak Panel Edition of 30 17. 5 x 33 in. 2018 7 colors on oak panel Signed and Numbered 19. 25 x 34. 75 in. (f) Originally produced in 2015 as a screenprint on paper for the ocean environmental activist foundation Pangea Seed, my latest print on oak panel, Siren, is meant as a warning. My imagination has always been drawn to this mythical being dangerous and enchanting whose form is an enthralling warning. The Siren dances and sings like