The River People
The River People is a revelation of poetry, art (sculptures and beadworks), songs, interactive teachings, quotations, counsel, stories and reflections. A work that combines memoir and testimony with recent questions and learnings. The book is a gift of an uncompromising creative spirit, determined to be faithful to the last to the sacred sovereignty of her visions, dreams and experiences.
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The River People
The River People is a revelation of poetry, art (sculptures and beadworks), songs, interactive teachings, quotations, counsel, stories and reflections. Barbara Fairhead offers us a work that combines memoir and testimony with recent questions and learnings. The book is a gift of an uncompromising creative spirit, determined to be faithful to the last to the sacred sovereignty of her visions, dreams and experiences.
A multi-genre limited-edition Art Book that contains professional photographs of Fairhead’s original bead and sculpture artworks as well as poetry, songs, memoir, and reflections. Incorporates the introduction to the earlier edition of Word and Bead by the late Stephen Watson and a foreword to this edition by Ian McCallum.
Limited edition artist’s book.
Printed on high quality matt art paper, thread sewn with cover flaps in a landscape format.
Barbara Grenfell Fairhead is an artist, writer, poet and lyricist. She was born in the United Kingdom in 1939 and has lived most of her life in South Africa. After her first visit to New Mexico in the late 1980s it became her second home. She made many extended visits over a period of twenty years, staying in her casita close to the Black Mesa. Many of her poems and haiku were inspired by that landscape, as well as some of her prose writings, and her trilogy of novels. She lives in Cape Town now.
“Suddenly, as if from the depths of a once silent river, the beaded human and animal figures within the pages of Word and Bead announce themselves. Now in her 80s, it is as if empowered by a renewed sense of death and purpose, she has given the beaded embryonic and winged human forms, the wolf, the sacred ibis, raven and dove, the antelope and, not least, the ‘ever-present’ serpents – that creature capable of outgrowing old skins – a voice! … … “We are the river people! We come from the depths!” Once again, true to the light and darker undercurrents of her highly creative life, Barbara’s soul, like a river … is on fire.”
Ian McCallum, psychiatrist, poet, sculptor
