I manipulate the paper as it feeds through the rollers, holding the paper so it can’t advance, stalling it for a few seconds or a few minutes, wrenching it backwards, pulling it quickly forwards again – over and over until the error indicator light tells me I need to unplug the printer, restart it, and try again. By carefully replacing and rearranging the computer chips and ink cartridges in my photo printer, I can confuse the printer into believing it’s creating an accurate image. This body of work, which I’m referring to as “the ships”, began with a process I’ve been developing over the last three years. And just like many other cultural icons, it’s being reassessed, amended, and transformed. And 500 years later, we are living here in America, and we have Christopher Columbus to thank. They formed a peaceful relationship with savage people and taught them civility. This image was perpetuated throughout my youth in school and in movies – a trio of massive, fantastic ships, leaving on an expedition to the unknown. It was cemented into my brain, and went alongside the narrative of the heroic journey that Christopher Columbus took in 1492 to discover the New World. “Niña, Pinta, and Santa Maria” is a phrase I heard hundreds of times in elementary school. He attended Azusa Pacific University (BFA) Claremont Graduate University (MFA.) This is the artist’s third solo show with the gallery. A response to the collective cultural amnesia about the contingency of historical memory, the effect is one of disorientation – both historical and immediate – in the face of radical transformation.Įvan Trine (b.1988) lives and works in Long Beach, CA.
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His newest series “Ships” utilizes the iconic image of Columbus’ sailing trio – the Niña, Pinta and Santa Maria – as a stand-in for a set of American cultural symbols that are currently being contested and re-evaluated for their historical whitewashing.īy physically altering the print as it leaves the printer, Trine imitates the process the viewer engages with and ultimately expunges culturally-entrenched internalized ideas, values and patterns of behavioral modes currently being dismantled by and within contemporary society. The three ships of that first voyage are considered among the ‘Holy Grail’ of ship archaeology.Evan Trine’s new body of work continues his exploration into using traditional photographic tools to manipulate a variety of recognizable source materials. The Niña and the Pinta continued in service following the voyages to the New World, but no record has been discovered that give clues as to their fates. It was the only one of the three whose approximate location was known. But the ship that was found dated more than a century later than Columbus’ voyages. In 2014, it was reported that the wreck of the Santa Maria had been located. The remains of the Niña, the Pinta and the Santa Maria have proved elusive despite decades of searching. In February 1494, twelve of the ships returned to Spain with Columbus sailing on the Niña. These ships included a new ship christened the Santa Maria, as well as the Niña and Pinta from the first voyage to the New World.
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Her fate following the second voyage to the New World is also not recorded.Ĭelebrating Passionate Volunteers at the IANHOF CeremonyĪfter the success of his first voyage, the Spanish Sovereigns spared no expense in fitting out Columbus’ second voyage with a total of seventeen ships for the colonization of Hispaniola. It is believed that she was built in 1441, making the ship over a half century old at the time of Columbus’ first voyage. It was a lighter and faster ship than the much wider Santa Maria, but little is known about the Pinta. On its first voyage across the Atlantic, the Pinta was captained by Martín Alonso Pinzón. The Niña and Pinta were smaller than the Santa Maria, weighing between 50 and 75 tons, with a deck length of 50 to 60 feet. The exact measurements of length and width of the three ships have not survived, but good estimates of their capacity can be judged from notes written by their crew members. The actual name of the Pinta (the Painted One) is unknown. The Niña (the Girl) was actually christened the Santa Clara and sailed for at least 46 years. The other ships of the Columbus expedition were the smaller caravel-type ships.
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She had a single deck, three small masts and as a cargo ship weighed about 100 tons. The Santa Maria was the largest of the ships and was a medium-sized carrack, with a deck roughly about 58 feet long. The Niña and Pinta were nicknames given to the vessels.
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Few realize that only the Santa Maria was the true name of the three ships. Everyone knows the names of the three ships that sailed on Christopher Columbus’ maiden voyage to the New World – the Niña, Pinta and Santa Maria.