WHITE SAGE
White sage is used in many Native American or Indigenous cultures. Usually known as “smudging sage”. It has been used traditionally to purify the mind, body, and spirit before praying. Native Americans also used white sage in ceremonies of birth and death. Sacred objects such as pipes and eagle feathers were passed through the smoking of burning white sage in order to purify them.
BLUE GRAMA GRASS
It can be ground into a powder, mixed with water, and eaten as a mush, often with corn meal. It is also used to make bread. It is also an important grazing food for mule deer, elk, and bison all of which the Ute/Tabeguache hunted and relied on for food, shelter, and tools.
The lenses I’m using for this project. From left to right; Dallmeyer 3B (290mm f/3), Derogy (220mm f/2.8), and a Derogy Fab 2 Portrait (240mm f/4). These are the optics that give me the look and feel that I want. Painterly, and poetic. Like a half remembered dream. A memory. And they are of the time period I’m referring to in the work.