Write a 350 word reflection statement about your connection to land. Your homeland, land you are on, land related to your family, anything. Include an image of that land – something you took yourself on your iphone, a map, a scan from a book, an old family photo, from another source, etc. There are no limits but you must submit a image and you must include the credit/source. Also, you must connect your thoughts about the land you choose, the image you choose, and anything else that seems relevant, to some of the artists discussed this week. 350 words./ 2: Chose a land and explained connection_/ 2: Include an image _/ 2: Credit the image_/ 2: Connected to artists/photographers from this week1. Read Bertien van Manen’s interview about her focus on how one experiences a journey. PDF- bertien001 2.pdf 2. Read about Challenging controversial photography. PDF – Challenging America’s Most Iconic _and Controversial_ Photographer of Native Americans – Artsy.pdf 3. Watch Wendy Red Star talk about reclaiming her history and discovering more about her heritage. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyJiXXXH2WE4. Read about Boris Mikhailov’s thoughts on photographing the changing culture. PDF -boris.pdf 5. Read this very brief statement from Carolyn Drake about seeing the opportunity for journey and self reflection through a old ancestors diary. PDF – drake.pdf 6. Read about Ana Mendieta’s powerful connection to the earth through her body and art. http://sfaq.us/2017/01/ana-mendietas-earth-body-flowers-and-gunpowder/ and this short, more specific, statement about her Silueta series https://americanart.si.edu/artwork/untitled-silueta-series-34658 . 7. Watch An-My Lê discuss her views on connecting war with landsape. https://art21.org/watch/extended-play/an-my-le-29-palms-short/hed the word count of 350 words. (Go for more if you are super pumped)Some personal thoughts about Kalispell, MT.I was born and raised there. I have Aunts/Uncles, and cousins that live there. I am draw to Montana. I feel connected there. I love the environment, the smell of pine (pine trees everywhere). I feel safe as it brings many childhood memories to mind. The hiking in West Glacier National Park, visiting Kootenai Falls and eating wild huckleberries.I am also, drawn to the Native American culture, having grown up around it. I will submit a personal picture taken in West Glacier National Park that I took last year when me, my husband and son visited.The image is of a glacier with the sun getting ready to set. You see the reflection of the trees in the stream. The vivid bright orange radiating off the side of the glacier. – Please submit a map of Kalispell MT or another relevant image. Make sure to credit the source.No Abstract page needed.