User:BrokeArtist1970/sandbox

About Me:
A little about myself, I am from California and am a current college student. I am very interested in the arts along with sports, true crime, and history.

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One of Lord's earliest projects, in 2000, focuses on her Native American roots. In her installation Native American Land Reclamation Project, she employs mixed media objects to bring awareness to the repeated cycle of broken U.S. treaties, specifically with Native Americans from 1778-1886. Displayed at the Institute of American Indian Arts, the installation occupied a 16" x 16" room with mirrors plastered to the walls, ceiling, floor. Hanging from the ceiling are dozens of cut-up red stripes (the blood) from the United States' flag. Lord then wrapped the cloth and filled it with dirt from various villages, reservations, and tribal lands from all over the U.S. to enact Pawnee's traditional flag-bundles; each flag-bundle signifies one prayer tie. The Pawnee people valued ceremony and medicine bundles to look over their crops, health, and religious practices. Lord suspended the prayer ties from the ceiling with sinew, which are animal fibrous tissues Native Americans used for everyday tasks such as sewing and tools. To show the repetition of history, Lord utilized the mirrors to multiply the prayer ties. In an interview, Lord explains, "I started thinking about what in my culture has been repeated over and over. [...] I wanted to create a piece that both acknowledged our history– and stressing both oppressor & survivor, Native & non-Native, it's a shared history".