Demián Flores introduces us to the concept of nourishment with his corn concepts at his L.A. Oaxaca representation at Craig Krull Gallery. It is in this beautiful matrimony of indigenous subsistence with manufactured mass consumption which permits us to celebrate this novel extension of human imagination as it bounces along with these irreversible currents between the Old World and the New.

Demián Flores
Corn, 2019
serigraph on popular wrapping paper
47.25 x 31.5″
Artist Proof. Courtesy of Demián Flores and Craig Krull Gallery. Copyright Demián Flores.

Indeed, corn has been a subsistent crop amongst the Natives of the Americas for millennia before being discovered as the “New World” by Europeans. And it is with European markets force towards the capabilities of creating greater opportunities for human excellence – the spirit of market capitalism promoting the likes of human arts and sciences never before realizable – that finds a beautiful sentiment in the artist’s positive treatment of the manufacturing paper that carries around tortilla chips across distances native communities would never have dared to imagine possible to travel in one day.

In this confluence yet nevertheless healthy light on nourishing the soul which yields a greater appreciation of what market capitalism is actually useful for: promoting health.

Demián Flores Corn, 2019 serigraph on popular wrapping paper 47.25 x 31.5″ Artist Proof. Courtesy of Demián Flores and Craig Krull Gallery. Copyright Demián Flores.

Do we therefore have a sense of shackling with this ode to the bare necessities of human life? Of being able to support life through the extension of the common good? What else is the ideal of the good for all but with the tortilla? But the tortilla has a natural origin before it is love-baked cada semana.

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