word: LEARN
partners: -- to be determined --
date: 6th to 8th of May 2009
concept:
Lessons to be learned, or at least to be considered. How to level economical differences in response to a catastrophe such as Katrina or in response to housing needs in depressed communities.
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Please go HERE for a brief explanation of the SONGLINE.
DIARY ON THIS LOCATION:
Is this some sort of a water printer? Take a look here.
We got the suggestion to go to the Indian Mounds of Mississippi.
"Periodically, the Mississippians would raze one of the wood-and-mud structures, bury the remains of a deceased leader in a fresh layer of earth, and erect a new building on top." (quotation from www.nps.gov)
These are man-made structures meant for ritual purposes.
This is an astonishingly beautiful and powerful place. It is the Emerald Mound on the Natchez Trace. Roughly between Auburn and New Orleans. Natchez on the Mississippi nearby is the town the cotton exchange was founded (Lehman Brothers). It is the beginning of the "Freedom Trail" to the north and still has history as both Spanish and French influenced territory. The mound rises to the top of the tree level and from the top you can look west over the plains on the western side of the river. It is not visited very often. there is a house by the the road that approaches it that the caretakers live in. A great place for a "ceremony" of some kind.
ReplyDeleteI should let you know that I produced a small artwork I call a cartouche from this mound. At the base the soil is very "ripe". I easily stuck my hand in a soft very moist spot and pulled a handful of soil molded it into a flat "egg" or "loaf" shape and pressed stylus markings and let dry in the sun. You could make hundreds of these. Press your word. You could make thousands of these. Then carry them to the top and natural graffiti your word big. Leave to the elements.
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