Osceola Godspeed
Osceola Godspeed
Date
2017
Edition Size
26
Media
Silkscreen
Binding
Coptic
Format
Artist Book
Dimensions
9.5 × 9.5 in
Collection
Limited Edition Artists Books$ 1,000.00
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Getty Research Institute
San Diego State University (SDSU)
Stanford University
University of Central Florida (UCF)
In this short story, Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales is the point of departure for re-imagining a late-capitalist trail of tears. Florida’s mythical Seminole Chief (and sports mascot), Osceola, is a metonym for the Get Rich And Die Trying Calvinism baked into the American ethos; but sure as the real-life Osceola, born William Powell Jr., was hardly an “Indian” at all, the land grab reality show at the center of Osceola Godspeed proves to be more than the desperate contestants signed up for.