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Lucy is Northern Cheyenne and as such a Northern Plains woman whose picture was probably taken sometime around 1890. What struck me about the blurry brown thumbnail picture I saw was how alive and present she seemed even though over a century separates us. She would have beaded, quilled, gathered wood and plants, cooked, raised kids, ridden horses, set up her teepee, butchered, prepared hides, and done what it took to survive. Yet, she seems composed, approachable, ”modern”, physically and spiritually secure in the knowledge that Mother Earth will sustain her. That is why I have shown her coming out of the earth, out of the past, to a present which now seems to reevaluate its relationship to the earth and its many-varied animal and human inhabitants. |
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