• blog
  • in the shadow of sun mountain
  • buy my books
  • photographs
  • paintings
  • bio
  • cv
  • contact
  • search
Menu

Studio Q Photography

Exploring Human Behavior and Death Anxiety Through Art
  • blog
  • in the shadow of sun mountain
  • buy my books
  • photographs
  • paintings
  • bio
  • cv
  • contact
  • search
×

“In the Shadow of Sun Mountain” 2022

White Sage & Blue Grama Grass

Quinn Jacobson August 5, 2022

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.

← The Great Mullein Flowering & Aspen TreesSunflower →

Search Posts

Archive Block
This is example content. Double-click here and select a page to create an index of your own content. Learn more
Post Archive
  • Photography
 

Featured Posts

Featured
Jul 1, 2025
Facing the End: Heidegger, Modernity, and the Meaning We’ve Lost
Jul 1, 2025
Jul 1, 2025
Jun 27, 2025
Vivian Maier: The Invisible Immortality Project
Jun 27, 2025
Jun 27, 2025
Jun 22, 2025
We Will Be Forgotten
Jun 22, 2025
Jun 22, 2025
Jun 18, 2025
To Create in the Face of Death
Jun 18, 2025
Jun 18, 2025
Jun 17, 2025
Quinn, Are You a Materialist?
Jun 17, 2025
Jun 17, 2025
Jun 5, 2025
My (Remote) Talk in Barcelona Next Month
Jun 5, 2025
Jun 5, 2025
May 28, 2025
A Question To Contemplate
May 28, 2025
May 28, 2025
May 12, 2025
Giving A Print With Every Book
May 12, 2025
May 12, 2025
May 9, 2025
Between Being and Ending: The Existential Significance of Art in a Finite Life
May 9, 2025
May 9, 2025
May 4, 2025
Ocotillo
May 4, 2025
May 4, 2025