A Gift for the Village

In June of 2007, 7 friends left the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia on a trip to Nepal. Our mission was to deliver a painting of an amazing man in a remote village which sits at 12,000 feet in the Himalayas. The film that documents this cultural exchange is now finished, and in the summer of 2010, it was carried back to Nepal and shown there. The film premiered in the US on September 16 at the Taubman Museum in Roanoke before beginning a new journey around the country.

Friday, April 16, 2010

April 16, 2010

Today is April 16, the third anniversary of the killings at Virginia Tech. This sequence from the film shows a memorial sequence held in Jomsom to commemorate the dead and wounded from that tragic day.

1 comment:

Garland said...: Strange, how the tragedy at Virginia Tech affected two diverse cultures, people from two diverse mountain ranges, the old and beautiful Appalachians and the younger, majestic Himalayas, literally on opposite side of our globe. Anchoring the tie on one end, Tsampa and on the other end, Jane and Jenna. A simple, yet beautiful and dynamic cord connecting the two.; April 16, 2010 at 9:55 PM