The New Myth of the Aftermath of Hurricane Katrina

When we committed to a collaborative thesis last fall (September of 2010 if our memories serve us), we talked a lot about how to make the content as universally relevant as possible.  Jackie thought of Joseph Campbell and the universality of myths, and Bri pointed out how all of our artwork finds its way back to a landscape--the basic elements of water and earth.  Jackie had just read Zeitoun, by Dave Eggers, a beautiful and tragic story which exposes the story of post-Katrina New Orleans for what really went down.  Pretty soon, Kerdieekrdaad was generating imagery around the idea of reinventing history, defining one's own heroes, and finding personal meaning in the impersonal chaos of what exists and occurs.  Here is How Gertrude Stein, Kwon Yin, Megan Perry, and Eleanor Roosevelt Helped New Orleans Recover from Hurricane Katrina: