In class we watched a film on John Feodorov. He comes from a Navajo background and so his work has to do with that. He said he's not trying to make fun of spirituality, but then he said that he is. He feels it's necessary. In the film he also said that he tries to create spiritual altars. He uses animals a lot in his work. He does a lot of contemporary usages of spirituality. I'm not sure if that makes sense, but he uses navajo traditions and altars them to put them into society, into the workplace.
In the film, he did a performance based art piece where employees in a company who were down could recieve this spiritual experience and then feel better and go back to work. So he not only makes things with his hands, he does some performance art as well. He makes sculptures and paints also.
He made
Totum Teddies:
Animal Spirit Channeling Device for the Contemporary Shaman:
Office Myth:
and
Forest at Night:
I need a different email to send these. I cant even send a message on that one
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