Hole in the Clouds
Oct 25, 2012
Why I Hate Self-Portraits (2009), by Dwayne Wilcox.
Wilcox, of Oglala/Lakota heritage, works with colored pencils on vintage lined paper in the tradition of ledger art, recalling the days when artists living on reservations had no paper to draw on but bills and invoices and some pages, perhaps, from purloined account books.
art
Native American
drawing
Lakota
self-portrait
Missoula Museum of Art
Oglala
(Art by Dwayne Wilcox)
Sep 11, 2013
The climb must have been going pretty well, straight up the wall of Mt. Gimli, in Canada's Kootenay Rockies. And then Hank stopped for a moment and looked down.
We might speculate that looking down would be a terrible thing to do. But all the evidence suggests that Hank just calmly snapped a picture of his own right foot and then went back to climbing on up.
He and Pat, his climbing partner, summited, rappelled down, hiked back out to their car, and drove into town to find something to eat.
For the record: They wore their helmets and harnesses and utilized their ropes and stuff. No mammals were injured in the making of this photograph.
landscape
birdseye view
British Columbia
self-portrait
Mt. Gimli
Kootenays
gneiss
(Image credit: Hank Stein)
Why I Hate Self-Portraits (2009), by Dwayne Wilcox.