36 Views Of Ononta'kahrhon: "This cloud, the flourish in your Easter Bonnet." By Michael Czarnecki

Monday, July 31, 2017

"This cloud, the flourish in your Easter Bonnet." By Michael Czarnecki

"This cloud, the flourish in your Easter Bonnet."

Ononta'kahrhon looms in the distance. Clouds hang above, slowly moving away. A road heads toward mountain then curves toward wide open space looming beyond.

There is a close mountain to explore, to hike on, to delve into its deeper essence. There is also wide open space to discover somewhere beyond mountain’s edge.

How do we choose which terrain to explore? There is landscape close at hand. There is landscape far away. There is interior landscape, there is external landscape. All of this terrain inviting us to get to know, to form a relationship with.

Frost’s “The Road Not Taken” crosses my mind. Do I hike up mountain slopes or drive on into open space, explore what’s beyond?

Either way there is always something to discover, to learn. Whatever path we choose, there is only this moment we are living in.

late winter landscape

remnant snow patches linger

northbound geese wing by

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For years I have been taking pictures of the Mountain/Hill that dwarfs the little hamlet in which I live. To date I have taken hundreds of images.

From my limited knowledge of Mohawk I have created a new name for Bennett Hill. I have done so because after taking hundreds of photographs of it, living in its presence for years, I have a fondness for and a curtain reverence of it that the current name does not impart or embody for me.

Because this was once Mahican land that was lost to the Mohawks after their war in the 1600s local indigenous names for locations are few. What there are are descriptive names given by the Mohawks when transacting the locations sale on documents such as the Slingerlands Patent for the purpose of indicating boundaries.

At some point over the years the outline and shape began to resemble the Haudenosaunee invention of a craddleboard to me. So, following the formula indicated on the Slingerlands patent I have researched, found and created what I feel to be an expectable and useable Haudenosaunee compound word that I have begun to refer to it as.

From Ononta: meaning Hill and Kahrhon: meaning Craddleboard: I grammatically gathered the two as a compound Mohawk word creating: Ononta'kahrhon. Meaning: Craddleboard Hill.

Pronounced: Ononta-kahr-hon.

This idea was inspired by the work of Katsushika Hokusai's woodcut series "36 Views Of Mount Fiji." I would like at some point in the near future to collect 36 of the best captures in a short run hand bound Art quality book entitled: "36 views of Ononta'kahrhon." (Craddleboard Hill.)

The format will be 71/2 x 14 perfect bound with a photo on the right and a Haibun on the left facing page. I would like to have 36 of photos and 36 Haibuns by various poets to accompany these photos.

Mark~