Wednesday, February 08, 2012

My Mother's Red Shawl - El Rebozo Colorado
Meredith Kalaman - Dancer/Choreographer




Me & My meeting with the red shawl. A curious task you might call it to find a way to wear a shawl that you know those before you have already posed in and that others after will continue to do so. I was perplexed at how I would "find" myself in this article that wields so much history and presence itself. And yet there it was clothes pinned and wrapped around me like a piece of armor as if I were heading off to battle or posing post war with my medals pinned to my shoulder. History runs deep and even though in my life time I have experienced very little of the evolutions that have graced this earth, I somehow felt rooted to the earth and the history before me that brought me to my time on this earth. All of a sudden I felt grateful for the moment when that feeling was documented, by Alex. I felt a grin come over my face thinking about the person who one day long in the future may find this photo and wonder how I came to pose in the red shawl....