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On the road again
Three finds: lettering from the road, from Taos cemetary and an unwritten language
What a great road trip I took last month through the Southwest! I have so many pictures I may never really get through all of them. But I've culled out a select few to share with you.
There were two great sources of lettering on my trip: fun and funky signs on the road, usually in small cities that I drove through and the lettering found on wooden crosses from Taos Pueblo cemetary and Campo Santo del Pueblo in Taos --weathered, distressed, often hand lettered.
And of equal interest to me was the Taos Indian language, Tiwa, which has never and will never be put into writing as their tradition mandates. Thus the Story Tellers are of great importance in orally transmitting their history and culture. One Taos Indian woman has honored them in clay figures, as seen here.
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