Turtle Creek, Dallas Texas
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Turtle Creek, Dallas Texas
Turtle Creek- A Sacred Water Body In Dallas Texas will be a finished portfolio of approximately 15 photographs. Inspired by learning that Black people performed baptisms in Turtle Creek after slavery in Texas ended (somewhere downstream from an exclusive Exall Lake resort and what would later become the sundown town of Highland Park), I began photographing my own spiritual experiences there. This work envisages the sacredness of this important water body: religious/spiritual experiences of it now and in the past; how it is commodified for wealth/real estate value upstream; and how further downstream, it is deigned as squalor or overly engineered as if it's a nuisance. This isn't a documentary project. It is poetic fine art with the history and facts informing my creative process. This project is part of a broader arc of intention in my work to develop, see and photograph the world through the lens of animism.
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