Idle and Blessed

Idle and Blessed is a collection of large prints and video from Wayne Bund's newest performance and photographic series. This work portrays a tribe of men finding home in the play and games of childhood within the Mt. Hood National Forest. It provides a place where language and landscape meet, dissecting notions of persona and authenticity. Bund utilizes stories from the collective unconscious, often using characters from mythology to re-imagine historical narratives and comment on contemporary culture.

I do know how to pay attention, how to fall down

into the grass, how to kneel down in the grass,

how to be idle and blessed, how to stroll through the fields,

which is what I have been doing all day.

- The Summer Day, Mary Oliver