The Seven Paddlers, 2025 Jason Chen The image of Aunt Lou

The image of Aunt Lou had always been a ghost in the family

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The Seven Paddlers, 2025 Jason Chen The image of Aunt LouThe Seven Paddlers, 2025 4 Color Lithograph on Buff Somerset Velvet 22 x 30 inches Edition of 30 Collaborating Printer: Justine Ditto This work is rooted in a cosmology drawn from the Maya world. At the center of the composition appears the celestial canoe, a direct reference to the paddler gods of Mesoamerican mythology. The seven figures seated within the vessel embody these moving deities, symbolizing the apparent journey of the sun through the