Vol. 36 No. 1 (2025): Continental Philosophy and Global South Perspectives
New Thematic Issue: Continental Philosophy and Global South Perspectives.
V. 36th, 2025.
Art cover by: Hannah Lander.
Hannah Lander is a Texas-born painter, whose practice is rooted in the tradition of American Southern Gothic. She is known for resistance paintings that encompass decay in life and landscape, in the American South. Her process for resistance paintings includes creating an initial water/silicone-based painting in white and light greys, followed by completely covering the paintings with a coat of oil-based black ink. Once the blackout has dried, she will hose off the residual black ink - allowing what survives of the white/grey underpainting beneath to show through and serve as the completed piece - whatever that may be. What remains of her laboured underpainting becomes its own creation - like a Tibetan mandala’s destruction, the unspoken labour of love, in its emancipation from the artist's original painting, decides its own finality on the canvas.
I Didn’t Jump the Fence, by Hannah Lander (2021).
Acrylic, Gouache, Sandpaper, India Ink on Canvas, 48 x 48.
"I Didn’t Jump the Fence, is a study of a longhorn skull from my granddaddy’s ranch. I never knew the name of this longhorn, and I don’t know if he even got a tag on his ear for an auction. Like the resistance painting process, the subject remains to find Being and Essence even after decay. For some, this might be uncomfortable, but for me, it is a pleasant reminder that nature forgives, and she will reintegrate our remains into her beautiful landscape when our souls leave our bodies" - Hannah Lander.
