Shadow and Reflection: Visions of Florida’s Sacred Landscapes
Suzanne Williamson and John Capouya, 2011
For thousands of years in what we call Florida, Indigenous peoples gathered together to transform their environment, building mounds and structures with earth, shells and sand. The act of creating the mounds marked a group’s place in the world, as they shared common interests, ancestry and beliefs.
Working in collaboration with nonfiction writer John Capouya, Suzanne Williamson explores this early part of Florida's history, focusing on the accumulated layers of human narrative that exist in the landscape. Drawing the viewer through the camera lens, she reaches for the stories that are embedded in the mounds…