about postcards from the sun — IVANMELICOFFABRIL

Postcards From the Sun is a long term project reaching into the world of Viento Solar, a Mexican group that has been following the Native American Lakota Tradition since the early 1980s. I met them in 2008.

I look at an indigenous tradition adopted by urbanites. A practice equally mystic as it is disciplined, it can be brutally hard on the body and just as generous with the spirit. People featured in this body of work are not shamans, they are teachers, electricians, accountants, janitors. These are city folk that have found a connection with the divine through an ancient practice they’ve made a constant in their lives.