The Last Indian Market by Cara Romero. Photo from the artist / Facebook
Indian Country Today interviews Chemehuevi photographer Cara Romero about her image of "The Last Indian Market." The mural is on display at the Robert Nichols Gallery in Santa Fe, New Mexico:
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It’s a whimsical, Hollywood, celebrity style, editorial portrait of Buffalo Man and an amazing group of contemporary Indian artists that came together to capture a most memorable moment in our lives. This is Buffalo Man and his famous artist peers posed just like Da Vinci’s painting of The Last Supper. Buffalo Man is kind of a pop icon for contemporary Native artists living and working in Santa Fe. We were looking for iconic images that would serve as amazing collisions of Native culture and popular, mainstream culture and the resulting interpretations have been very powerful, personal and rather unlimited. Buffalo Man is unlike any persona or model I’ve ever worked with, because you can read so many metaphors into what he symbolizes. These photographs of him always spur fascinating interpretations, so it makes me want to keep mine a secret. It’s both editorial and Native American fine-art documentary of Native peoples. I want to execute gorgeous photographic murals that have great, contemporary, and perhaps, controversial content.
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