Description: “Temple Mound Space Travelers 2” was inspired by Town Creek Indian Mound, a Mississippian site in Mt. Gilead, North Carolina. A giant sundial of sorts, Town Creek was composed of a single large platform mound with a surrounding village and palisade. It was primarily an astronomical and ceremonial site. “Temple Mound Space Travelers 2” shows temple mounds and temple keepers, mathematicians who knew how to track the cycles of stars, sun, moon and planets that determined the sacred calendar and traditional ceremonial cycle.
As was often the case during mound-building times in the southeast, Town Creek is purposefully situated by a river and on ground that contains large amounts of magnetite (iron). In “Temple Mound-Space Travelers 2” you see winding rivers and a rusty red-orange color palette to denote magnetite in the earth.
Original Dimensions: 22” x 22”
Original Medium: Mixed media assemblage using found wood, acrylic, oil pastel, pencil, photos and cutouts of recycled digitally edited passages.
Print Format: variable media
Print Dimensions: multiple sizes