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Hydro towers and Navajo Changing Woman

6/25/2013

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As a student I did a project on Navajo sand painting. As I remember, a healing process takes place over several days, where a patient sits in a hogan while a lengthy ritual is carried out by the medicine man.  The oral component has been compared to one person singing all of the parts in an opera. Along with this is the making of a sand painting invoking mythical religious figures and their stories. A principal goddess is Changing Woman, and her images have remained in my memory. 

Changing Woman grows old and
young again with the seasons. She represents the power  of the earth and of women to create and sustain  life. 

 
I always thought that there was a strong resemblance to our modern hydro towers, and that a comparison of the function of each would be artistically and philosophically interesting. It would be richly ironic with commentary on environmental issues. It would not involve appropriation, and be visually quite entrancing. There was never quite the opportunity to develop this thought into something fruitful. Or at least not by me.

And then again I am not Navajo, so there's that.

So this little blog.

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Robin Pacific link
6/25/2013 07:12:31 am

hi Margaret, really liked your blog, check mine out! It's odd, I was just thinking today about the woman in the Duotopias project so long ago who made the hydro tower goddesses! What did she make them out of, do you remember?
xo
Robin

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Margaret RODGERS link
6/26/2013 03:08:29 am

Thanks Robin
That was Jan Prebble, and I know there was fiberglass involved, and a motor that was stolen near the end of the show. I will send you her email address.

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Marcus Sheppard link
6/11/2022 07:46:02 pm

Thiss was great to read

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