noreply@blogger.com (Unknown)Mon, 9 Sep 2024 02:13:51 -0600Blogger http://www.blogger.com22125http://alwaysbecomingfilm.blogspot.com/en-ushttp://alwaysbecomingfilm.blogspot.com/2010/04/connecting-dots.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)Thu, 29 Apr 2010 00:38:00 -0600tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7877493149489391385.post-1266388214976351340 0http://alwaysbecomingfilm.blogspot.com/2010/04/our-brothers-and-sisters.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)Tue, 6 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0600tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7877493149489391385.post-7197343496568905812One Interview: Tito Naranjo december 2009 (00:27:07) "America is great at trying to make other people in their own image..." When I was young I thought indigenous people were a phenomena particular only to the United States. Public schooling reinforced all kinds of misconceptions, creating Natives as a discovered and quickly conquered race. And, that after the Mexican border, 1http://alwaysbecomingfilm.blogspot.com/2010/02/glimpse.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)Sun, 28 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0700tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7877493149489391385.post-8985985570652305188"Of this our true individual life, our present life is a glimpse, a fragment, a hint, and in it's best moments a visible beginning."- Josiah Royce Next month: Our Brothers And Sisters0http://alwaysbecomingfilm.blogspot.com/2010/01/watch-it-interview-with-tito-naranjo.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)Thu, 28 Jan 2010 00:01:00 -0700tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7877493149489391385.post-8162781928747630639 "Etching a new beginning from old songs. Ancestral sounds navigating steady and sure Across a celestial canvas with prayer bundles in hand Singing welcoming chants.       It is the beginning of a simple Wondrous gift called life."- From the poem, Always Becoming In all the interviews we've done over the year of filming one thing is clear, as Native people our spirits are 0http://alwaysbecomingfilm.blogspot.com/2009/12/imagery-and-self-image-reversals-in.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)Mon, 28 Dec 2009 22:38:00 -0700tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7877493149489391385.post-7208055745897424553When I was eight years old I worked during the summers for a man named Jack Denver. Mr. Denver owned a curio shop and motor lodge at the south end of Taos, New Mexico. Denver's Curio Shop sold fake Indian jewelry, "Real Indian Drums" which were made of metal and rubber, postcards with romantic images of Pueblo Indians, pottery, corn necklaces and war bonnets. The "Real Indian Drums" and actually 0http://alwaysbecomingfilm.blogspot.com/2009/11/strong-women-part-two.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)Sat, 28 Nov 2009 20:00:00 -0700tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7877493149489391385.post-8737318096508602966  Virginia Romero was a Tiwa Indian from Taos Pueblo, New Mexico. Virginia weighed all of 90 pounds and stood four and a half feet tall on days when she wasn't hunched over with a bundle of some kind on her back. Her long black hair never left the tidy knot at the back of her head and on days when the task at hand was especially dirty and laborious - plastering with mud or tanning a hide - 0http://alwaysbecomingfilm.blogspot.com/2009/10/fred-nahwooksy.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)Wed, 28 Oct 2009 18:41:00 -0600tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7877493149489391385.post-6029910788730144212While working on the sculptures of Always Becoming on the Smithsonian Mall, Fred Nahwooksy often stopped by the site to talk with the crew. At one point he brought a rock from his house and asked that it be incorporated into the one of the forms we were building. We planted Fred's rock inside the female form hidden within one of the tee-pee shapes. One day Fred invited me to the Smithsonian's 2http://alwaysbecomingfilm.blogspot.com/2009/09/our-connections-to-earth.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)Tue, 29 Sep 2009 00:33:00 -0600tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7877493149489391385.post-7674117565766209488Originally I titled this month's blog, "His Connection To The Earth" in reference to the interview we did with Duane Blue Spruce in New York. In listening to the interview several times over, I realized Duane's words were articulating "Our" experience as a contemporary Native person looking at the NMAI Landscape. Not only was Duane addressing the landscape surrounding the NMAI museum in 0http://alwaysbecomingfilm.blogspot.com/2009/09/strong-women-part-one.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)Tue, 1 Sep 2009 23:49:00 -0600tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7877493149489391385.post-5295277274875069490"All I was trying to do was get home from work."Rosa ParksGrowing up on a reservation in New Mexico that was historicallymatriarchal, my role models in life and culture were women. My fatherspent most of his time outdoors so much of the day to day governanceof home was directed by a woman I knew as Jia. Jia means mother in the Tewa language. My mother was a combination teacher and drill sergeant 1http://alwaysbecomingfilm.blogspot.com/2009/07/finding-music.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)Tue, 28 Jul 2009 00:23:00 -0600tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7877493149489391385.post-7419558828314499014In May of 2007 while the Always Becoming Sculpture Project was underway, short podcasts documenting the construction were also being filmed for internet access. The idea behind the podcasts was to share information with anyone who was interested in seeing the building process and learning more about the concept and people involved. Dax and I discussed the where and how of getting music for the 2http://alwaysbecomingfilm.blogspot.com/2009/06/weaving.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)Thu, 25 Jun 2009 23:26:00 -0600tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7877493149489391385.post-3111626804690139014Weaving. Verb, 1. To compose a connected whole by combining various elements or details. 2. To be or become formed or composed from the interlacing of materials or combining of various elements: she is weaving yarn into fabric.Merriam-Webster's DictionaryFrom the very beginning of the Always Becoming project, there has been a strong presence of people participation. People's support, their 0http://alwaysbecomingfilm.blogspot.com/2009/05/returning.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)Thu, 28 May 2009 23:27:00 -0600tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7877493149489391385.post-5224158104142598727Washington D.C.Chapter IThe Family of SculpturesThe five sculptures of Always Becoming have clearly begun their transition. The red coat of plaster on the smallest sculpture known as Hin Chaa or "Baby" has almost washed away. The second layer of mud and straw surface is highly textured and richly organic looking. The fired clay balls on the top of "Baby" are holding tightly to the surface giving 0http://alwaysbecomingfilm.blogspot.com/2009/05/crossing-over.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)Sat, 2 May 2009 13:58:00 -0600tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7877493149489391385.post-4134310169209857825Day One We crossed the border south of Tucson, Arizona at the wind swept town of Nogales, Mexico. The desert landscape stark under the glaring mid day sun undulated, slipped into ravines then resurfaced behind a valley of mud homes. Intimidating border officials, weather worn and dark, waved cars toward the next check point. In between checks points, kids sold candy and an older man hawked0http://alwaysbecomingfilm.blogspot.com/2009/03/crossing-borders.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)Mon, 23 Mar 2009 15:48:00 -0600tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7877493149489391385.post-8795463627709052917On April 4th the Always Becoming film crew will head down to Obregón, Mexico. We will be traveling with Athena and Bill Steen, last year's crew members on the Always Becoming sculpture project at NMAI In Washington. Our goal is to interview crew members, Juanita and Emiliano Morales and patriarch Don Juan who live in Obregón. The Steen and Morales families along with Don Juan played a significant0http://alwaysbecomingfilm.blogspot.com/2009/02/seattle.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)Thu, 26 Feb 2009 20:06:00 -0700tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7877493149489391385.post-6654408711733752308 "All journeys have secret destinationsof which the traveler is unaware" -T.S. ElliotThe bags packed - check, traveling schedule in order - check. Concernsand stresses packed, but easy accessible - check. Armed with every "check" humanly possible, check, check.Have you ever started off on a journey with preconceived notions ofhow a trip should - will be? Each day0http://alwaysbecomingfilm.blogspot.com/2009/01/seattle-bound.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)Sat, 24 Jan 2009 19:26:00 -0700tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7877493149489391385.post-4459401705887405238This blog entry will include a travel itinerary and some general information about our trip to Seattle (February 6-10) to interview Architect, John Paul Jones. Mr. Jones was a selector for the National Museum of the American Indian Sculpture Competition. We'd like to catch up with Mr. Jones and ask him some questions about indigenous Architecture, the sculpture competition at NMAI and how culture2http://alwaysbecomingfilm.blogspot.com/2008/12/who-is-this-man.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)Tue, 23 Dec 2008 22:18:00 -0700tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7877493149489391385.post-1003619434560681306“I think the medium of image and sound is unbelievably powerful and it is exciting to imagine where it will go, what it can do in terms of communicating worlds of thought.”- Dax ThomasDax Thomas is 29 years old. Dax was born in the arid landscape of central New Mexico where massive rock formations and red colored earth create dramatic views in every direction, at any given moment. Casa Blanca, 1http://alwaysbecomingfilm.blogspot.com/2008/11/margaret-archuleta-interview.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)Fri, 28 Nov 2008 15:39:00 -0700tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7877493149489391385.post-682804635460857208Starting a new endeavor is both exhilarating and a bit daunting. The night before the Margaret Archuleta Interview I wake up and go through the “to do” list. ‘Questions for the interview typed out and in my folder by the door,' Check. 'Everybody’s confirmed to be at the right place, at the right time,' Check. I’m certain I’ve missed something and proceed to torment myself by playing the, “What 0http://alwaysbecomingfilm.blogspot.com/2008/11/global-links.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (NORA Naranjo-Morse)Wed, 5 Nov 2008 19:37:00 -0700tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7877493149489391385.post-2566491735085927814November 1, 2008In October I was asked by the international art organization, Res Artis to be one of three key note speakers at their annual meeting held in Amsterdam. Res Artis is a worldwide networking organization that connects artists to residential art centers. The residencies can be for short periods of time or not, in large cities or not. the idea of Res Artis is to offer the artist an 0http://alwaysbecomingfilm.blogspot.com/2008/08/another-journal.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (NORA Naranjo-Morse)Fri, 15 Aug 2008 19:03:00 -0600tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7877493149489391385.post-746264867381471642With the Sculpture project of Always Becoming, I kept a journal. It was a large, black artist book with blank pages. I filled it with phone numbers, pictures, mud-sand ratios and cryptic notes. The notes were a collection of thoughts that culminated into what the sculptures of Always Becoming meant to me, how I invisioned it's evolution and intent. The journal was intimate and at times probably 1http://alwaysbecomingfilm.blogspot.com/2008/08/welcome.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (NORA Naranjo-Morse)Tue, 5 Aug 2008 14:50:00 -0600tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7877493149489391385.post-6143081455992240848In the Summer of 2007, on two small plots of land, near the busiest street in Washington D.C., an art project called, Always Becoming began construction. For nearly two months in the heat and relentless humidity of a Washington Summer, a crew of eight along with a host of volunteers built five organic, ephemeral sculptures on the grounds of the National Museum of the American Indian on the 2