I've attached three short slideshow/videos to this post, each one jam-packed with many of the Shiloh pictures that people have been giving me to scan for this project. I'm calling these slideshows, as a group: Shiloh Voices, Beautiful Faces. Please enjoy!
Song: Dancer to the Drum, by Beth Nielsen Chapman
Song: Ella's Song, by Sweet Honey in the Rock
Song: Forever Young, by Bob Dylan
The final one of these videos has captions, the others do not.
In these videos I tried to represent many different eras in what I've shown, and to represent the pictures that most people have given me. But beyond the timeframes and the donors represented, I wanted to awaken a sense of joyfulness and compassion towards the faces that you see and those you may have seen before. For myself, I end up spending a lot of time looking at these faces and hearing the voices of these people in the work that I do--it is sort of a removed, private experience for me but also a very intimate one. I have the daily experience of studying a look, then a tone, then a thought expressed, for meaning and how that meaning weaves in and out of all the other details. For the Shiloh people out there, please feel free to let me know if any of the threads I'm compiling ring true or false to you, and thank you again for opening up your stories.
