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Cranberry Lake, NY |
Last week was busy and exciting. Over the last year I have been working as part of a NASA grant to help organize an event at the the MOST (http://www.most.org/) that involves music, NASA Earth visualizations, scientints and consultants from accross the country, educational activities, and the Onondaga Nation School and community. Usually I'm writing and performing my own educational performances, so this was a BIG challenge and commitment. Not only did everything work out pretty well, but Kenji Williams ended up using some of my photography in his Bella Gaia (http://www.bellagaia.com/) performance. What he does is work with NASA to put together a 30 min. video that starts out above the galaxy and flies in to Earth. While it runs, he plays live electric violin over a digital track. The view in the video takes the audience flying around the Earth looking at all kinds of cool satellite data. Since the event was designed to be localized for the Onondaga Nation, the video zooms in to Central New York. And when it does, all the photos that represent the aboriginal land of the Onandoga People are my nature photographs. This wasn't part of the original plan for the grant, so I was very thankful that Kenji decided to do this. His whole performance was beautiful and emotionaly moving. What made everything even better was that an Oneida man, named Heath Hill started the day out by recited the "Thanksgiving Address" in his native language. This may have been the highlight of the whole day. I feel very honored to have been a part of this.
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| Green Lakes State Park, NY |
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