Study:
"...the problem about the egg and the hen, which of them came first, was dragged into our talk, a difficult problem which gives investigators much trouble. And Sulla my comrade said that with a small problem, as with a tool, we were rocking loose a great and heavy one, that of the creation of the world. "
Plutarch, Table Talk, Moralia 120 AD
A Hen lays an Egg after light-sensitive cells behind her eyes message her ovary to release an ovum into the egg yolk. Fertilized by sperm, coated by albumen, encased in shell as the egg travels through the oviduct. This creative process encompasses twenty-four hours; as the rotation of Earth on its axis.
Hope Sandrow, spacetime June 2006
(March 28, 2006) When Sandrow’s path crossed with a large white bird (l, a Padovana cockeral later named Shinnecock for where they met) in the woods: his feathered crest reminded her of Edward S. Curtis’s series of portraits “The North American Indian” (r, Portfolio plates 408). And their regalia (pictured, below r) Eastern Woodland headdress (pictured, at Shinnecock Indian Nation Annual Pow Wow, Shinnecock Nation Performance Artist Shane Weeks.)
Her Chance Encounter (Surrealist doctrine of objective chance) on hills where Native Americans had roamed freely (before the Town founded,1640, seized the lands 1858).
At this time their efforts to regain ancestral lands was on appeal of a federal judge’s ruling (December 2006) “that Shinnecock Nation tribe waited too long to bring the case”.
“The Sky is Falling” is the central phrase in the folk tale "Chicken Little" aka “Henny Penny” selected by Sandrow as her title to reflect the socio, cultural and ideological policies ..
Friday, November 20, 2009
September 30 3:53pm Shinnecock with Susanna
The Sky is Falling open air studio Shinnecock Hills spacetime 2009 Albumen Prints 20” x 16” Unique
OPEN AIR STUDIO
digital video, 4 minutes 2012
Commissioned by curators Lowery Stokes Sims and Elizabeth Kirrane for the traveling exhibit Against the Grain: Contemporary Works in Wood Museum of Arts and Design March 19 - Sept 15 2013