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Then this one also
is from the series,

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and one of Gareth's images.

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Again, children and again,
it was a favorite image

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that I really sort
of responded to.

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And I saw the village, the home
that she was playing in front of

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and that is the
lifestyle that I knew,

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the way that the
village is set up.

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And the piece is called "The
Little Girl in the Pink High-Top

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Sneakers."

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And she was wearing sneakers.

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"The little girl in a
flowery party dress.

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She appears out of place in the
poverty of an O'odham village.

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Her party dress
says she is happy

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and enjoying her time here.

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Never mind the outdoor
kitchen made of worn bricks,

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never mind the dirt roads that
cut one way and then another,

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oblivious to the rules of roads.

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Follow them not knowing
which is the main road

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and to what
destination they lead.

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Like the roads, the lives of
these children in the village

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meander.

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Their origins are vague, their
destinations even more so.

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Do these children know that they
are descendants of holy people?

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Holy people who knew how to
sing for rain and clouds, people

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who always were in tune with
the moisture of the ocean.

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Do they know their
ancestors could

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call the wind and lightning and
knew how to cleanse the Earth?

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Do they know?

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They ride their
bikes over a desert

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that for years was cared
for by their holy ancestors.

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They must know, otherwise the
little girl would not be out

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playing in a flowery party dress
and glittery high-top sneakers."

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So-- but anyway, so those
are some of the pieces from--

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like I said, that I responded
to from Gareth's photograph.

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And many of them are set up as
part of the photographic exhibit

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both here and also at the
Center for Creative Photography.