Narrative Photo
Monday, December 17, 2012
Saturday, December 8, 2012
Tuesday, October 30, 2012
Project three Proposal
After long consideration I plan on shooting two Native American pow wow events here in MKE. I want my photos and subjects to comment on Edward S Curtis's work. I want to capture the difference of space and the integration of contemporary style fused with the traditional Native American regalia being worn by the subjects. I want my work to comment on Curtis's but allowing my own work to surface through the use of my subject's contemporary style and the surrounding sterile environment or spaces to create multiple truths. I want to reveal a memory about the work of Edward S Curtis through my own work.
Thursday, October 18, 2012
In Plain Sight: Social Documentary
"Lake of the living spirits"
Devil's
Lake the "lake of the living spirits" was the primary summer
destination for our family while I was a young boy growing up, it is
located in the Baraboo area of Wisconsin. The deep salt rich cold water
lake was created by the glaciers during the last ice age about
12,000 years ago. One thousand years ago Native Americans built three
effigy mounds surrounding the lake and used the perimeter as a burial
ground for their deceased. Legend has it there was a creature that
lived in the lake that looked a lot in appearance like the Loch Ness
Monster that pulled several Native American Indians and white settlers
under the lake, it is rumored that there is a deep underwater outlet to
the lake. Suggestions have also said the lake monster may have been a
Plesiosaur that found its way into the lake during the last ice age.
This is the lake where my sister and I almost drowned when I was seven
and she was six, I can't say for sure if it was the monster that pulled
my sister down under or if it was the Water Spirit that lives in the
lake that helped us to safety but this is what I eventually came to
believe and what started to make sense for me over the years. I haven't
stepped foot in the lake since that day, these are some of the images
that I saw that frightening day and continue to see whenever I revisit.
The
Sioux called the lake "Tay wa ka cha gra," the translation means Holy
Lake, Sacred Lake or Spirit Lake but white settlers changed the name
from Spirit Lake to Devil's lake. The lake just had it's 100th year of
being founded in 2011.
Thursday, October 11, 2012
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