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| Tribal Four Image Dream Montage CC Jean Stimmell (credits below for 2 of the original images before being altered in Photoshop) |
I had a dream last
night of attempting to take the perfect photograph –in that magic hour
before sunset – of sprawling factories radiating an unearthly glow
like funeral pyres on the Ganges
As the evening mist
mushrooms into bellowing smoke, it strikes me that these factories are not
benignly lit but ablaze!
This
gathering vortex brings home to me the absurdity of
attempting to capture impermanence with a photograph
As further proof of
this, an indigenous person appears, androgynous in appearance with silky black
hair and aquiline nose, a shaman birthing a long-forestalled prophecy
After ages of abusing our mother earth, the pendulum of history has changed direction: These burning factories, iconic symbols of modernity, signal a shift back toward tribalism
After ages of abusing our mother earth, the pendulum of history has changed direction: These burning factories, iconic symbols of modernity, signal a shift back toward tribalism
CREDITS:
• original photo of Domino Sugar factory, Inner Harbor,
by Angela Pan: www.abpan.com)
• original photo of indigenous American is of Amos, Two Bull,
Sioux Indian portrait taken by Gertrude Kasebrer cc 1900
http://daysgoneby.me/portraits-native-americans-1900/
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