Living Light

 

While I was at the Phoenix Art Museum last Friday, I stopped in the contemporary art gallery to see a new exhibit of photographs created by a Native American artist, Cara Romero.  She combines traditional stories from her tribal experiences with messages about injustices, humanity and vitality.  Her work celebrates the beauty and resilience of the Native People. The photo above is obviously a play on The Beatles Abbey Road album cover. The name of this photo is "17 Mile Road".

This photo is another obvious take on the famous Annie Leibovitz photo of John Lennon and Yoko Ono.  She calls it "Two Virgins". 

The exhibit was broken into several themed sections.  The section above dealt with female empowerment.

Another section was about how Native Americans are fitting into the future.  The photo above depicts coyote woman as an astronaut.  Just aroud the corner from the photo, I found the actual coyote woman standing guard.

She created a lot of messages and social observations in these photos.  I'll show you a few more tomorrow.