Spirit Mound
- Mixed Media
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63 x 19 x 30 in
(160.02 x 48.26 x 76.2 cm)
- $1,825
- TUG Collective
Spirit Mound
large-format camera, photographic negative on transparency, video, sound, and prose
A chance meeting on the streets of South Sioux City, Nebraska devolves into a tense conjunction between a man from the Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska, who presented himself as a warrior with diminished capacity, trying to thrive in an environment poisoned by invisibility and abuse, and a modern-day inhabitant of settler-class heritage caught off guard by the heat of history. Spirit Mound echoes this contact zone, the large-format, wooden camera—a relic from an era when photography was used to document indigenous peoples and romanticize them—evokes the amnesia that covers the fingerprints of attempted genocide.