Moose. Indian.
an exhibition of photography by Gerrit Lansing

moose. indian. was originally displayed at The Latin School of Chicago from February 3rd, 2003 to February 14th, 2003. The photographs in this exhibition were printed in series of seven. The exhibition consisted of 10 photographs from The George River in Nunavik (the Inuit controlled province of northern Canada), The Presidential Range of the White Mountains in New Hampshire, and from the Sarasota region in Florida.

It is written that on his death-bed, Henry David Thoreau's final words were "Moose. Indian." The exhibition's title, moose. indian. an exhibition of photography by Gerrit Lansing is a tribute to Thoreau — one of the greatest naturalist authors in history. The following is the epigram from the exhibition:

...Alone in the distant woods or fields,
in unpretending sprout-lands or pastures tracked by rabbits,
even in a bleak and, to most, cheerless day, like this,
when a villager would be thinking of his inn,
I come to myself, I once more feel myself grandly related,
and that cold and solitude are friends of mine.
I suppose that this value, in my case, is equivalent
to what others get by churchgoing and prayer.
I come home to my solitary woodland walk as the homesick go home.
I thus dispose of the superfluous and see things as they are,
grand and beautiful...

- Henry David Thoreau

Moose. Indian.
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