These Temple Bones

09/19/2020

01/06/2020

07/14/2019

Orting, Washington Ghost Town October 2018

Art project on memory, time, & ritual space through multimedia collages gathered from abandoned cultural sites in the Pacific Northwest.

07/14/2019

07/14/2019

Ghost Town near Carbanado, Washigston

04/07/2019

Franklin Mine, Ghost Town, and Cemetery

04/07/2019

Franklin Mine

01/19/2019

Art project meditating on the affective power of memory and time by creating activated ritualized spaces at abandoned cultural and postindustrial sites throughout the Pacific Northwest. Multimedia collages will document the ceremonial visits to these memory shrines.

01/19/2019

Teaser for the first site/project just outside of Orting, Washington. This is a tributary to the Puyallup river, near the site of the ghost town of Crocker. Lesson #1: A LOT changed since this site was described and photographed as part of the Ghost Towns of Washington website in 2011, 2013. http://www.ghosttownsofwashington.com/crocker.html
IG: .temple.bones
With Heather Lindsay

01/19/2019

The title “These Temple Bones” is a reference to a poem by Galway Kinnel that has spoken deeply to me since I read it.
It’s a section from a full poem:
“5

If one day it happens
you find yourself with someone you love
in a café at one end
of the Pont Mirabeau, at the zinc bar
where white wine stands in upward opening glasses,

and if you commit then, as we did, the error
of thinking,
one day all this will only be memory,

learn,
as you stand
at this end of the bridge which arcs,
from love, you think, into enduring love,
learn to reach deeper
into the sorrows
to come – to touch
the almost imaginary bones
under the face, to hear under the laughter
the wind crying across the black stones. Kiss
the mouth
which tells you, here,
here is the world. This mouth. This laughter. These temple bones.

The still undanced cadence of vanishing

Galway Kinnell –“Little Sleep's-Head Sprouting Hair in the Moonlight”, Part 5