"Let the beauty we love be what we do...There are a hundred ways to kneel and kiss the earth." Rumi. Photo: Fire Arts Center, Arcata by BK

"The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be lighted." Plutarch. Photo: Fire Arts Center, Arcata, by BK 

"Art for art's sake? No. Art for beauty's sake, art for the sake of others." Francois Truffaut. Photo: Morris Graves Museum of Art inaugural exhibition, Eureka, by BK 

"They ask what/the purpose of art is. Is that how things are? Say there were a thousand artists and one purpose, would one artist be having it and all the nine hundred and ninety-nine others be missing the point?" John Cage. Photo: The Ink People center, Eureka, by BK 

"The history of peoples and civilizations is written by their art and not by their economics and industries and politics." Gino Severini. Photo: Arcata public garden, by BK 

"The most beautiful experience we can have is of the mysterious." Albert Einstein. Photo: Morris Graves Museum, Eureka, by BK 

"Rhythm is one of the principal translators between dream and reality." Edith Sitwell. Photo: dance class, Arcata, by BK  

"I am here to live out loud." Zola. Photo: young gospel choir rehearsal, Arcata, by BK 

"Behind every idea there is a thousand years of literature." Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Photo: Sacred Grounds, Arcata, by BK 

"For what is the heart but an instrument that transforms chaos into order and noise into music. Make voyages, attempt them, there is nothing else." Tennessee Williams. Photo: pan student Arcata by BK 

on the water from Tuluwat

approaching Eureka

landed at Eureka

the crowd gathers

Walt Lara (Yurok), Peter La Valee

Philip Vigil (Hupa)

Cheryl Seidner

Coming to the Native North Coast

Five North Coast Native maidens and one badly placed microphone: June 25, 2004

University of British Columbia Museum of Anthropology, Vancouver, BC