Wyoming Walkabout 1, UW Honors class, Fall 2011, 5'x18'
Students: Kathryn Snyder, Nick Memmer, Noah Creel, Christiana Moore, LeeAnn Grapes, Melanie Vigil,
Chelsea Hacker, Alex Brink, Milo Page, Ken Hilton, Andrew Olson, Luke Aust,
Zack Anderson, Becky Watt, Kim Menke, Nicholas Martinez
Inspired by Australian Aboriginal painting traditions this story painting by Paul Taylor's University of Wyoming Honors class of Fall 2011, teaches to the traditional Law of "Care for Country" and sharing our water.
Students explored the Aboriginal worldview of the Dreaming and applying this to care for their Albany County watershed. See the Medicine Bow Mountains in the west from which the Laramie River and Little Laramie River flow and meet up near Laramie township and flow north. To the east you will see the Laramie Range which feeds the Spring Creek drainage and in turn the Casper Aquifer which feeds the people of Laramie.
Laramie town is represented by the white circle with their UW campus. The dots represent the rain, the snow, the water and in turn all of the plants, birds, animals, insects and people that are born from this rain on this land. The student footprints represent their personal journey's or life Walkabouts to and from this beautiful land.
