Full Circle
is
a project that arose from a joint venture with David Carson, a long time
colleague and the co-author of “Medicine Cards.” When we
re-connected, in the early 90’s, I wanted to work with David on
something that would combine his knowledge and my skill. The point was
to disseminate the knowledge that lives in native philosophy.
We began work on a proto-type deck of cards, but after David mentioned the concept and discussed some of
the sketches with friends, he decided that he could not proceed. His
reasons were complex; but apparently several native-American tribes took
extreme exception to this project, which involved someone without enough
native blood. I’m only a very small part Lakota Sioux, and while David
is half Cherokee – it was not enough to sway the people.
In order to not tread on the
philosophy of peoples already so abused by this society, I decided to go further back: 15,000
years to the time of the shamans and the time of the Caves of Lascaux.
The point of the ‘dancers’ in this project is to connect us all to
our common beginnings – in order to re-discover some of that precious
human balance that we seem to have lost. The still unfinished project is
called “The Circle of the Ancients.”
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