Capita Mortua Arts is owned and operated by Indi Walter. Indi was raised in Kaneohe, Hawaii and currently lives and works in Fairbanks, Alaska.
Indi works in a variety of media including clay sculpture, resin casting, printmaking, painting, ink drawing, bone carving, and woodwork.
Indi graduated from ‘Iolani in 2013. She pursued a Bachelor’s of Fine Art at Creighton University (Omaha, NE C/O 2017) and a Master’s of Fine Art at the University of Alaska (Fairbanks, AK C/O 2020).
Capita Mortua
Capita Mortua means “Dead Heads”, a plural of Caput Mortum, “useless remains” or the leftovers of alchemical processes. This also refers to caput mortuum, the pigment known as “mummy brown” that was processed from human mummies ground into powder. This shade of reddish-brown is found in a handful of classical paintings and is associated with mortality and memento mori.
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