Honoring the Ancestors as Worlds Collide

An ancient Andean monument has been gouged by looters seeking precolumbian treasures; modern squatters (many Indigenous peoples from the highlands) who have migrated to the coast seeking a better life use the looter's pit as a bathroom and trash dump. Disembodied human arm and leg bones (many with flesh still attached), shredded funerary textiles, and shattered pottery are mixed in with modern human fecies, shreds of paper used for wiping, and plastic trash.Photo by Nathan Craig.

A Study of Lion Multivocality

Symbols are polysemic or "multivocal" meaning a given token may have very different meanings. After taking a new position at Pennsylvania State University and having a long time interest in the symbols of Rastafarianism, Nathan Craig was prompted to assemble and juxtapose alternate uses of the Lion as a totemic symbol of power and inspiration. This collage is a study in two general modalities of meaning that surround lions, the African Lion and the Nittany Lion.