Medicine Men
Medicine Men examines cyclical patterns, a web of relations, and genealogies in relation to medicine, economy, and power (following the Rockefeller Family) on the one hand and to cosmic and psychic forces (following myths of snakes/serpents) on the other hand. I present photographs, video, objects, books, and various historic material in a sculptural installation which shifts between workshop, lab, office, and museum.
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A vast number of serpents are twisted together in summer
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Headdress: Serpent (A-Mantsho-ña-Tshol, roughly “master of medicine”) from the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Michael C. Rockefeller Memorial Collection, Gift of Nelson A. Rockefeller, 1964
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Water-snake receiving its young into its mouth
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Skype conversation from Rockefeller Archive Center with a medium / Searching for medicinal plants at the Rockefeller homestead near Richford, NY
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A Ball of Snakes
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in lieu
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Rainbow formation (Nujol study in mechanism of action)
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The Hoop Snake, According to Popular Stories