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i wasn’t anticipating the complete deflation of hope this week. realizing the need to return to full warrior mode i find comfort and hope in the words of #nelsonmandela. a luta continua (the struggle continues). photographer unknown. “believe” 4 years later at walter, the bus in downtown phoenix. photo by sean kautenburger. Mr. Rankins, who lost his sight in 2014, gets the mural described to him by Marvin Smith, owner of Ollie’s Trolley. (See last post.👇🏿) shout out to artist @m1rk2lb3in i couldn’t have gotten this up in 4 days with you! (the full story is at the “sight ≠ vision” link in my bio. ☝🏿) Back in the fall of 2022 I received an invitation from an organization I’d never heard of called FotoFocus. They describe their biennial like this “the FotoFocus Biennial is a month-long celebration of photography and lens-based art that unites artists, curators, and educators from around the world. Now in its seventh iteration, the 2024 FotoFocus Biennial encompasses 107 projects at 86 Participating Venues across Greater Cincinnati, Dayton, Columbus, and Northern Kentucky — the largest of its kind in America.” I was invited to Cincinnati in the fall of 2023 to participate in a lens-based forum they host and this fall I got to take part in the biennial. My show is running at the Contemporary Center of Art designed and built in 2002 by Zaha Hadid. and it’s a wrap! thank you @fotofocus biennial for the invitation to participate in your 10th anniversary celebration. thank you ken ogawa, @psculpta @s_dooley1971 and peggi crawley for making the trip to cincinnati to support and participate. In August of 2022 I returned to @calbrazilcamp after a 10 year hiatus. As before, the experience of being amongst magestic, ancient California redwoods while studying Brazilian music and dance from Brazilian masters was transformative. I’d not heard the music of @fabianacozza before going but was so moved by her voice and spirit that I sat in on her Intro to Brazilian Music vocal class for a week. (As a non singer I never would have done this were she not teaching two songs by my favorite musician, Milton Nascimento. In the video she’s teaching “Ponte de Areia” from the 1975 Wayne Shorter release “Native Dancer”. This lp introduced people not familiar with Milton’s angelic and poetic voice to his gift.) I told Fabiana about my recent trip in March 2020 to Brazil as the pandemic was descending and of my friend @zito.raul who, as it turned out, took the photo of her first lp. Zito is a talented musician and artist who also does large scale paste-up, photographic murals. We’ve been connected since 2009. Check out his work if you’don’t know it. A highlight of my 2020 trip to Brazil was getting to accompany Zito and his pagode ensemble on one of their regularly scheduled trips to Cracolândia in São Paulo where they bring the transformative and healing power of music. This is where the cover image was taken. I’m honored that my friend Fabiana Cozza chose this image for her new single which dropped today. (I think it’s available on all platforms.) Please check out the music of Fabiana and the art of @zito.raul. 🙌🏿💥 stolen moments from the soft opening last night at the contemporary art center cincinnati as part of the @fotofocuscincinnati bienal. thank you to my collaborator and long time inscription house health center friend, ken ogawa and to the painted desert project participants who contributed work. lastly, thank you to curator @fultonstreet and to fotofocus. the show will run until early january 2025. also, ken and i made an antinuclear zine which we’re still figuring out how to distribute to the non cincinnati based public. stay tuned! #zahahadid scenes from the rally today at red butte on havasupai land opposing pinyon plain uranium mine (in the recently designated ancestral footprints of the grand canyon national monument). the action was organized by @sierraclubaz (grand canyon chapter) which called upon governor katie hobbs to work with the navajo nation and havasupai to close the mine. meanwhile, a six month moratorium on uranium ore hauling across the navajo nation is in effect until the beginning of 2025. #leaveitintheground #nouranium #protectgrandcanyon #waterislife how thrilled was i to open an email from the curator of the “other side of the tracks” show and to realize that a photo in the email was a picture of a woman who is watching my “the bison didn’t cross the tracks” short film. (the awesome first photo is by photo is by @kaylafearportraits ) the photos that follow are stills from the film. ✌🏿 @redlinedenver
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