Rural America Part I

This is some rough video but I am going to go ahead and show it because I think it has important content...

It was my intention to document the events that led up to the closing of the Washington County Arkansas Livestock Sale Barn in Fayetteville, Arkansas. This documentary is an account of an exchange center for cattlemen that was in operation for 73 years. Since 1936 mostly men and some women have come to the sale barn to buy and sell livestock. I am compelled to acknowledge the changes for the small rural livestock farm and would like to understand more about the large commercial livestock industry and its effect on the food chain. Moreover, how does this change in agrarian culture affect human relationships with the landscape? How does the commercialization of agricultural products and genetically engineered enhancement detach and dehumanize our ethical investment of human labor and respect for livestock animals?

Dubai Before and After

Recent Drawings and Photographs - LD

Cyclists and Wet Tire Marks

Recent Drawings and Photographs - LD

Henry Darger

I Can Feel You Near Me

by LD

I’d rather be me than a fly on the wall or a snake in the grass.

There are flies on my walls listening and laughing.
As flies feast maggots multiply.
When discussed I feel disgust.
Shew flies on my walls, you bother me.

I would rather be me than a fly on the wall or a snake in the grass.

Snake in the grass I'm looking for you.
I see the slither marks and traces your body left behind.

Flies on the walls and snakes in the grass,
I can feel you near me.

Arkanasas Washington and Carroll Counties

Although I may be wrong, I think this is a green heron, not so common and a sight to see here on the White River in Northwest Arkansas.

I have my eye on this ten year old Mustang...

Old Mower - this would make a nice self portrait of me

Until Herman's wife passed away, they loved to garden together. Now that she is gone he continues to garden. Herman loved his wife and this garden is a symbol of his love for her and his struggle with her absence.

The following photos of an old barn, a trailer house, water well, homemade afghans, trout fishing, the cemetery, respectfully decorated are associated with rural life in the south and are symbols of my heritage.

Arkansas Washington and Carroll Counties

Waterhouse

Barbara Hepworth

Barbara Hepworth

Garden and Cosmos

Futurism

Richard Long

India by Michael Wood

Ed Pennabaker Northwest Arkansas

Herb and Dorothy Documentary by Megumi Sasaki

herbanddorothy.com
I have anxiously awaited this film and hope to see it soon.

Herb and Dorothy Trailer from Herb and Dorothy on Vimeo.

Washington County Arkansas May 13, 2009

About 10 miles south of Fayetteville, circa 1850-1900 this trail system was started by the cavalcades and homesteaders who settled in the Ozark Mountains. (The beautiful, well mannered horse is Sugar.)