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(The manifestation of miracles lead to new opportunities. Ode reports the incorrect use of force. Be emotionally and spiritually pure. Dysfunction leads to isolation.)

“Untitled (natural textures)”
@ 2009

“Untitled (seed pod)”
Nickerbean (Caesalpinia bonduc)

“Untitled (frog)”
archival pigment print
© 2011

“Water Abyss Transformation”
Archival pigment print
@ 2009

“Untitled (three)”
archival pigment print
@ 2009

The flutes [made from the bones of vultures] are the oldest musical instruments found to date.

The researchers say in the Journal Nature that music was widespread in pre-historic times.

Music, they suggest, may have been one of a suite of behaviours displayed by our own species which helped give them an edge over the Neanderthals.

The team from Tubingen University have published details of three flutes found in the Hohle Fels cavern in southwest Germany.

The cavern is already well known as a site for signs of early human efforts; in May, members of the same team unveiled a Hohle Fels find that could be the world’s oldest Venus figure.

The most well-preserved of the flutes is made from a vulture’s wing bone, measuring 20cm long with five finger holes and two “V”-shaped notches on one end of the instrument into which the researchers assume the player blew. (Via BBC.com)

“Skull & Egg”
silver gelatin print
© Shabaka

My friend Ray Bravo and I went out to Joshua Tree National Park a couple of times, and I went out there with other friends as well because the place is totally mind blowing. While Ray and I were out crawling around on the big boulders one of us found this skull. It had obviously been there a long time, but I thought is was beautifully raw and tragic. I photographed it many times, however, in this instance it was for an assignment while I was attending Art Center College of Design, Pasadena. Actually, they hadn’t moved to Pasadena at this time. They were over toward West L.A. (6th Street as I recall). One of my father’s friends, Cliff, had given me his old enlarger and I printed this at home, not on campus. It was a great experience to have models, professional dancers, to stand there, contort themselves, and get all dressed up with costuming when there is no way in the world a young man like I was then could afford to photograph them outside of the educational environment.

At the end of it all, here in 2011, what I found in a box yesterday was evidence of my major body of work. I continue to work with bones to this very day. I found a new one out next to my car that I’ll post in a couple days.

“Untitled (grass)”
archival pigment print
© 2008