Friday 27 February 2009

FOUND


HEAD CHIEF of the Arapaho tribe with flag. Allies with the Cheyenne, enemies with the Pawnee and Comanche. Great plains. Chromolithography print.1850

Journey to the South West

Wednesday 25 February 2009

Collages/Photoessay


Collage detailing the clash of cultures in the new land, Unknown Artist, 1969

Cover of Times supplement, 1970

Tuesday 24 February 2009

Archive Film of Europan Settlement.


A short peice of footage taken of the abandoned settlement near a Hopi Pueblo.

Abandoned settlement.


A Europan abandoned skyscraper located in the southwest, towering over a local hopi pueblo.
Date:
1850
Location:
36˚14'03.42" N
110˚10'25.56" W

Wednesday 11 February 2009

Archive slide image


"Untitled"
Date: Unknown
Photographer: Unknown
A native settlement, the walled city of Europa visible in the background

Found


"Untitled"
Date: Unknown
Photographer: Unknown
A native settlement, the walled city of Europa visible in the background.

Tuesday 10 February 2009

MDCCXCII


October 11th, 1492. A foul storm descends over the horizon as winds batter the sails of the Santa Maria. Christopher Columbus and his crew of pioneering explorers are tossed around the wooden vessel like characters inside a snow globe. Despite the crews brave attempts to stabilize the ship and stick out the violent weather the boat is battered by gargantuan wave after wave after wave, until, lying on her side, a final watery blow blasts the hull apart and the stricken vessel is capsized, sinking deep into the icy black waters of the Atlantic Ocean.

Back in Spain word reaches of the lost voyagers. The financing of the trip has crippled it's spanish investors, and any idea of further attempts to explore and succeed where Columbus failed are dismissed and eventually completely forgotten.

300 years later and new developments in Travel, Literature and Technology spark a renewed vigor in the idea of possibly exploring the edges of world. In 1792, 300 years to the day of that fatal storm, a new expedition arrives on the shores of these uncharted lands. And so begins America; we stand at year zero.