#thepastispresent

[naturallightsuzanne]

Lately I’ve been thinking about the time, six years ago, when I toured a slavery plantation in Tennessee. Over on the blog, link in profile. #slavery #thepastispresent #plantationstories #thehistoryofslavery #thestorieswetellourselves #cragfontmansion https://www.instagram.com/p/CCOxMi7FfCh/?igshid=l07gragmczit

[the-tattooed-trowel]

I sold this project (76 CB750) when I moved to the Netherlands and I miss it a lot. I kept the tank though, cause it's a crazy piece of vintage 70s art (second picture). Archaeology is all around us. We can even ride it. #thetattooedtrowel #thepastispresent #thepastispower #horsepower https://www.instagram.com/p/B-5Onxgje1R/?igshid=1atokc00cf93b

[the-tattooed-trowel]

Yup yup. Mutual aid is more important now than ever. Historic and archaeological research regularly shows that during crises people who have power attempt to consolidate more. It's only through intentionally building communities with distributed power that this consolidation is countered, or even unraveled. #thepastispower #thetattooedtrowel #thepastispresent https://www.instagram.com/p/B-3tlnBjB-7/?igshid=1fdtl0f1i8hvg

[the-tattooed-trowel]

BOOM!!! Considering that we glamorize the toxic and pathological need to horde in how we treat and look up to billionaires, it's really no surprise that people model billionaire behavior durimg crises. I could have bought 6 12 packs of TP. I bought one. #thepastispresent #thepastispower #thetattooedtrowel https://www.instagram.com/p/B94RTZdHZpb/?igshid=idq0upc0x9ig

[the-tattooed-trowel]

I love when odd designs show up 1000s of kilometers apart. There are cylinder vessels in both of these areas as well. There is no study (that I know of) indicating if these are independent inventions or a diffusion of information about how to make this technology or sometimes even people, although the wide distribution of these pots makes that last less likely. The cylinder jars we know now are products of technology moving (a long with cacao), maybe these pots are for something highly specific as well? The more we understand how wide spread information exchange was, the more we realize that our idea of modernity and its heightened interconnectedness is really just a modern vanity. Or worse, one that serves to erase similar social processes in "premodern" times and disconnects contemporary people from the sophistication of their ancestors. 1) "Shoe-shaped" pot. Toledo district, Belize. Undated/unprovenienced, but common on Maya sites. 2) Sapawe "Duck" pot. 66.105.83 Maxwell Museum. #thetattooedtrowel #thepastispresent #thepastispower https://www.instagram.com/p/B9Rmg8EnGU4/?igshid=12wwdad1q45vn

[the-tattooed-trowel]

When my kids build sandcastles, it always reminds me of a talk by @tsurovell about recording an interesting rock alignment that looked ancient but turned out to have been recently made by children. #thepastispresent #thetattooedtrowel https://www.instagram.com/p/B9E-mSUH-_F/?igshid=1r9ki6uj0flag

[the-tattooed-trowel]

Museum of Art and Archaeology @mizzou with the family on Saturday. Egypt to contemporary periods. Really wonderful museum. Next door is the Museum of Anthropology. Were going to visit that next week. It's also a really wonderful museum with amazing curators (and Lame Deer's van!) that are doing critical work. However, as is problematically common in the world, Indigenous art is in the anthropology museum and Egyptian/Greek/Roman/Near Eastern/European/modern is in the Art museum. The implication, of course, is two fold. 1) The "classics" are the foundation for "modern" art and "modern" society. 2) Indigenous artistry and society are separate (i.e. have had no impact on the contemporary world). Separating, for instance, unknown ancient Southwestern Cibolan artists from unknown ancient Greek artists is a form of Indigenous erasure. I know some of the curators and I know they're working hard to improve the presentation and to make the museum space more equitable and less skewed against Indigenous groups. #decolonize #decolonizethemuseum #thepastispresent #constructingthefuturehistory https://www.instagram.com/p/B875P3OnHR2/?igshid=nfnwzqbwabxj

[the-tattooed-trowel]

Hey all! I did a thing and talked about parts of my 'past as a radical archive' project with these awesome folks including work I've done with @the_durty_trowel, @nogara_eilsel, and @ashanishinaabe. Please listen. And share! Link is in bio. #medicinefortheresistance #thetattooedtrowel #thepastispresent https://www.instagram.com/p/B8F7mMBHSjX/?igshid=13apf1m0thq0c