STEVE ROWLAND

(Chief) Seattle Meditation

This is a meditation on the history of human displacement and real-estate covenants used to exclude specific ethnic groups. in Seattle over the past 130 years or so. This is a four-screen video – meant to be shown in a gallery setting on 4 large monitors. It is hoped that the viewer will experience the patterns and rhythms of the interplay between the 4 screens as part of its ‘musicality’.

Steve Rowland has spent a career using media, music, theater and art as windows to explore issues in American history, society, race relations, human creativity, spirituality, aesthetic beauty, the nature of change and human possibility. All of his work examines the intersection of culture and social justice. He is a veteran story-teller committed to social change.

CINEMATOGRAPHY, STILL PHOTOGRAPHY, VIDEO EDITING, & MUSIC.
HISTORIC PHOTOS ARE EITHER IN PUBLIC DOMAIN OR WERE LICENSED.