Hi everyone… we’re back! In this episode, we take a research trip down to the Texas-Mexico border to view a portion of the 335+ fading pictographs scattered across the rocky walls of Seminole Canyon…

Through this, we discuss the work of artist Mary Virginia Carson and cognitive anthropologist and muralist Dr. Carolyn Boyd; the White Shaman mural; Mesoamerican mythology; fragrant offerings through speech-breath; John Dewey and Walter Benjamin; the art object and its aura; our boots-on-the-ground camping experience; stumbling upon a catfish fry; and more....

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Main Sources:

• The White Shaman Mural: An Enduring Creation Narrative in the Rock Art of the Lower Pecos by Dr. Carolyn Boyd
• Mary Virginia Carson: Capturing Rock Art with Water Colors by Marise McDermott
• Speech-Breath: Mapping the Multisensory Experience in Pecos River Style Pictography by Dr. Carolyn E. Boyd and Ashley Busby

• Art as Experience by John Dewey
• Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction Walter Benjamin