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Buffalo Bill Cody at Ocean Beach
As a follow up to yesterday's post on the Cliff House, today we feature a post on an unusual sight at Ocean Beach last week. This 120-piece installation by artist Thom Ross depicts life-sized mounted figures inspired by a 1902 photograph of Buffalo Bill Cody and his Wild West Show taken at this same Ocean Beach location, under the Cliff House.
Ross, a native San Franciscan who now lives in Seattle, created the enormous tableau to honor both Cody and his Wild West troupe. About three dozen Yurok and Lakota Native Americans were on hand for the installation's opening. A medicine man blessed the work with smudge sticks and a call for a connection between all people who view the work.
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7 Comments:
I don't know what it is, but this was a really magical event. And it was really popular. I never tire of looking at the photos.
Is it gone already? i would love to see this.
The installation was taken down last Monday.
I should have posted this earlier but lately I've been too swamped to keep up with FogBay like I should.
Yep, it was amazing, wasn't it...
Quite by accident I stumbled across it a while back... (I have some photos on my blog)
The detail and appliques (sp?) were amazing... You've got to wonder how much time Thom put into the pieces... Besides the artistry, the craftsmanship is outstanding!
And I appreciated your last sentence: "and a call for a connection between all people who view the work." -- well, talk about connections -- I ran into a great lady who I hadn't seen in about eight years...
Oh, it's gone? Too bad! I was just going to say I saw the photographs on Don's blog but I had no idea there were so many pieces. That must have been quite an impressive sight.
I made a photosynth of this installation here: http://photosynth.net/view.aspx?cid=e8a351e9-bb11-49ec-8827-40d9d2461f86
Thomas Hawk:
I'm on a Mac and apparently PhotoSynth doesn't support my ability to view your work. But anyone interested in more Buffalo Bill should check it out.
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