Tché Dillahi or Turtle Wisdom“revisit myths through interactive narrative to metaphorically render Native America’s wisdom”

Major Studio

Caroline RomedenneProfessor Victoria Vesna

Louise WhiteWater - Tohlakai…Born a long time ago,

when the mosquitoes' bite.

Only using a newer form of visual language would benefit documenting the beauty and knowledge of America’s fading indigenous culture.

Statement

Context turtle & migration

Tché Dillahi is about creating an interactive narrative series that uses indigenous people’s migratory patterns as they populated North America .

Along with it, the intention is to metaphorically look at the way by which the People understood their environment.

Where the research started…

Turtle: a universal mythThe turtle is a universal symbol of the earth, life, longevity and wisdom. It is part of many emergence

stories as well throughout Asia, Europe and the Americas. ‘Turtle Island’ is how the People call this continent. It is where the world as it is today was created.

Throughout the process…I explored the relationship between Native Americans and their environment by emphasizing visual similarities between their patterns of movement and other branching natural structures.

“Veins of water, rivers of blood”

Illusive narrative

Pedro M. Cruz‘Traffic in Lisbon’

Precedents

Edward Kac‘Nomadic ecology’ The Starn brothers

‘You split it, you see it’

Leading the narrative through human migration

Dinéh People

Lakota People

Narrating data using mythological metaphors

3 layers for the future installation

Geodesic Dome / Turtle Shell

Migration pattern / Data driven?

7 Turtles = 7 ContinentsReal turtles swimming or large picture of 7 turtle + moving water

"Wisdom is a pulling together, knowledge a taking apart. Wisdom synthesizes and integrates, knowledge analyses and differentiates. Wisdom sees only with the eyes of the mind; it envisions relationships, wholeness, unity. Knowledge accepts only that which can be verified by the senses; it grasps only the specific.”

Gyorgy Doczi

Thank you!