Jacks McNamara
they/them
I am an artist, writer, trauma healing coach, and parent based in Albuquerque, NM. I have been active in the mad liberation and disability movements for many years, including co-founding The Icarus Project, and was also a founding organizer of my local SURJ chapter for 4 years. I was initially exposed to racial justice work through my training with generative somatics and the community I encountered there.
Artist statement: These paintings form a visual residue of my explorations into the pre-Christian spirituality of my European ancestors, reaching towards the collective consciousness of a time when “white people” were indigenous to specific places and revered rather than destroyed the land. They are my prayers and spells; they are my synesthetic responses to music and light; and they are improvisations based on the knots and rings of the raw wood underneath them.
Ancestor Dreams
For the Fire Gods
