Delita Martin’s "Place Your Hands Upon My Truth"

2023

Martin explores family roots, racial identity, and the veilscape.

In Place Your Hands Upon My Truth, Martin portrays San Francisco-based artist Shauna Strauss in overlapping colors and patterns representing the veilscape. Martin has described how she learned hand-stitching from her grandmother, who also used objects in jars to tell visual stories. Martin’s portraits often weave together different symbols, like the bird from her home state of Texas pictured here.