September 21, 2005

• there are a lack of edges here. but that’s ok. i can live without more commas. more strict fascist surfaces. not right this moment. …

  GALLUP PHOTOS:

  SAT FLEA MARKET, 9/17/05

  SAT FLEA MARKET, 9/17/05, ROASTED CHILI’S

  SAT FLEA MARKET, 9/17/05, TRADITIONAL MUTTON STEW WITH STEAMED CORN AND FRY BREAD

  9/18/05 RED ROCK

  9/18/05 CHURCH ROCK

  9/18/05 ROUTE 513

  9/18/05 ROUTE 513

  9/18/05 GERRY AND CODY, FORT MCKINLEY RESERVATION

  9/18/05 ROUTE 513 NAVAJO RESERVATION

  9/19/05 ZUNI LAND RESERVATION

  9/19/05 EL MORRO

  9/19/05 EL MORRO

  9/19/05 EL MORRO

  9/19/05 EL MORRO

  9/21/05 SUNRISE AT KOKOPELLI, GALLUP

  Kokopelli. Probably the most popular & well known Indian symbol. Known as the seed bringer and water sprinkler. A common fertility symbol throughout the Southwest. His image is found many times in petrography art. He is a personage who is honored as a kachina by most Pueblo cultures. He is associated with fertility, the male principal, biology, and the significance of guarding seeds. Usually depicted as old, bent under his heavy load with his flute. He travels to many communities, impregnating young women who are mesmerised from the notes played on his flute. Related to the cricket or locust whose natural music is associated with the state of humidity and seasonal weather. Many bawdy stories of his various exploits have been told. As a kachina doll, he is made with a staff, not a flute and is carved as a hunchbacked. His likeness also featured exaggerated male sexual organs until the missionaries came in the 1930′s, who frowned on

  9/21/05 SUNRISE, GALLUP

  9/21/05 EAST GALLUP, WAITING

  9/21/05 EAST GALLUP, DREAMING

  9/21/05 EAST GALLUP, INNOCENCE I

  9/21/05 EAST GALLUP, INNOCENCE II

  9/21/05 EAST GALLUP, BECOMING

  9/21/05 EAST GALLUP, MANHOOD

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