Navajo on the Road: Jetsonorama from Moenkopi Wash to Bitter Springs

There is a stretch of highway from Bitter Springs to Moenkopi Wash where you might slow down or stop all together to take a look into the eyes of a Navajo. They are there looking at you. Artist and photographer Jetsonorama is telling more stories out here about the Navajo people and their neighbors in black and white poster-sized wheatpastes.

Jetsonorama. Owen. (photo © Jetsonorama)

The portraits, snapshots of life, and representational scenes are telling you their stories, even if you didn’t ask a question. The sun-baked creases on their faces are maps of roads you may have traveled but probably not. Serene, apprehensive, jovial, content, resigned, pensive, beautiful – that’s how these individuals are captured and blown up; a way of life on display for the world to see.

Jetsonorama. Ben. “Water is Life” (photo © Jetsonorama)

Jetsonorama. (photo © Jetsonorama)

Jetsonorama. (photo © Jetsonorama)

Jetsonorama. (photo © Jetsonorama)

Jetsonorama. (photo © Jetsonorama)

Jetsonorama. (photo © Jetsonorama)

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