S/tr:w/EET WALK: A travelogue thru an American unconscious and some Cities of its Civil War

What innate qualities do shoes convey-especially if found on a prostitute’s
walk?

An artist who found the shoes used in S/tr:w/EET WALK incorporated their
 surrounding environment into her video. She then invited a dialogue with her
 work. My video response connects directly to actual events. After 
getting the shoes by chance, I was scheduled to go South, whose past still carries relevance today: slavery, the Civil War, the fight for Civil Rights,
and now our first President of color.

Moving between diverse landscapes, seemingly haphazard facts disclose
 historic and mythic connections: Ireland, where many Southerners came from, is the root for many Americans. My story of being trailed by a prostitute
when visiting Ireland, attributes belonging to goddess Hecate, and traces of
Irish descendent artists (Flannery O’Connor / Augustus St. Gaudens) found
along the journey loosely connect intuitively.

Public monuments regarding slavery and General Sherman impart the patriarchy
asserting power, as slave trade was abolished. Today the global sex trade
may be interrogated as modern slavery via feminist texts; while in Irish 
myth and its Cinderella fairy tale there is a world where women have the power and God is a woman. The form of America’s symbol of freedom, the
 Statue of Liberty, may have been chosen intuitively; as her ancient twin,
 Hecate, led another Goddess, who is ascribed with re-birth, out of the
Underworld. Lady Liberty leads our nation to…?

S/tr:w/EET WALK – CREDITS

Written, Produced and Directed by LILI WHITE

Featuring Rebecca Louise Tiernan as THE STATUE of LIBERTY and/or HECATE

Voiceovers: Joel Haberli, David Finkelstein, Bryan Wells, Shellita, Eileen
White, Rashita Bryant, Joanna Hartell, Lili White

References:

• The Collective Unconscious discovered by: C. G. Jung

• Shoes Found: Dublin, Ireland 2009: Kathryn Maguire
• The FOGGY DEW (National Anthem)- Peadar Kearney
• Knoth archelogical site & Howth’s Head (circa 1998)
• FAIR, BROWN & TREMBLING (the Irish Cinderella) collected by John D. Batten in CELTIC FAIRY TALES published 1892

USA

• PUBLIC SCULPTURE – IN THE AMERICAN NORTH:
• LIBERTY LIGHTING THE WORLD: FreŽdŽric Auguste Bartholdi & Maurice Koechlin and Eugene Viollet-le-Duc
• Augustus Saint-Gaudens SCULPTOR of: WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN (with Robert
• Treat Paine) at Manhattan’s Grand Army Plaza, 5th Avenue & 59th Street & THE SHAW MEMORIAL on Boston Commons, Massachusetts

IN THE AMERICAN SOUTH:

• BEAUFORT, SOUTH CAROLINA: gator under the bridge
• SAVANNAH, GEORGIA courtesy of DAY CLEAN JOURNEY TOURS:
• Factor’s Walk
• SLAVERY MONUMENT: sculptor: Dorothy Spradley; ITS INSCRIPTION: Maya Angelou
• The Flannery O’Conner House

QUOTES:

• NY TIMES:7/24/09: WELL-BEHAVED STREET CORNER SCULPTURE – Ken Johnson on the Goddess, HECATE: Theogony of Hesiod – ll. 404-452 & other sources
• USES OF THE EROTIC: THE EROTIC AS POWER – Audre Lord
• WHO IS YOUR MOTHER? RED ROOTS OF WHITE FEMINISM – Paula Gunn Allen
• “Life leads the thoughtful man” – I CHING #13
• “…for we walk…” – St. Paul: 2 Corinthians 5:7
• “…the high soul burns on to light men’s feet…” – inscription on SHAW

MEMORIAL

• “Hazel Motes…” from WISE BLOOD – Flannery O’Connor
• GEORGIA ON MY MIND: Stuart Gorrell & Hoagy Carmichael

FILMS:

• excerpt from LEGGY REDHEAD by Rebecca Louise Tiernan
• Homage to 8 1/2 – Frederico Fellini; with Eddra Gale as La Saraghina