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- Terrance Houle 2004
photo by Jarusha Brown 2004, Urban Indian Series (no. 3), 2007 Eight digital C-Prints 35.6 x 27.9 cm each
- From the artist’s statement: “The Urban Indian Series is a comment on personal identity and cultural commodity in today’s contemporary culture. Specifically, what is my culture as it compares to the mainstream understanding of Native Peoples? My regalia is both a catalyst in the image, breaking up the sea of mundane western garb, and a representation that is part of my everyday, much like my culture, thus challenging the suggestion that I am out of place in a world that only identifies with conformity. The work serves to question ideas of tradition, identity and culture that are often negated or replaced by Western cultural standards.”[Link] http://www.nmai.si.edu/exhibitions/hide/terrance.cfm