Ron,Im not sure im a candidate for your group.. as im not sure im a suburban primitive.. I don't think I have ever lived in the suburbs except with the exception of the time we lived in New Orleans. That was on the West Bank,,I think suburbia,,in a way but ten minutes across the bridge to the French Quarter and Cafe Du Mont.for beignets and French coffee.. a stroll through Jackson Square and then to the international French Market with people from around the world and their crafts. and goods for sale.. what a life.. in some ways I miss it.
This may qualify for suburban primitive.. Years ago..ummmm about 20 or 25 I had been studying aborigine ways of life.. pottery making by hand by coil method....rock pecking to make bowls and other useful items, going out and cutting osage orange tree limbs and making bows or hickory staves to make bows,and using cane shafts for arrows and fletching arrows by hand instead of using a jig and flintknapping a stone projectile point for arrow tips or just use an osage orange thorn for tip.. it is about three inches of deadly sharp hardness makes for great arrow tips. I learned that the bow and arrow was on the way out when the white man ventured into aborigine territory when exploring and the use of the blow gun was at hand since the aborigines were doing agriculture and shooting small game and putting in cages with poison darts to knock them out with until they caged them,much like our refrigerators..I learned fire making from pump drills sticks and wood and also how to spark a flint against another to create a spark to ignite kindling..I learned how to create a lance to hunt with as well and learned the art of flintknapping..a skill used for millions of years.
I learn to create useful natural tools from gourds, also using the sinew or leg tendons how to make thread and lashings, I learned to tan leather with acorns using the tannic acid from the acorn to tan with ,and deer brains to tan a hide.. I learned how to field strip a deer using only a blade created by striking a flint core and making a blade with it to cut the deer up and then making other tools from the same rock to make scrapers for scraping and preparing the hides for tanning. I learned to use the leather for making clothing and the bones for needles and other useful tools.
I learned to make pigments from plants and minerals and such.. Over 20 years or so.. I learned how the aborigines lived ,survived and enjoyed their lives living from the land around them and thrived.. I learned so many skills that useful then would be even more so now.. so with all that being said.. and what I haven't told you that I learned. would that qualify me for suburban primitive..? I learned all kinds of skills including stone working creating tools and weapons,utensils and you name it..I have posted some of the projectile points I made a few times but never gave a description .. so people probably would not have noticed.. but all in all the learning I have done from primitive man has been a part of my life all my life.. its title should be survival..in all ways and situations even in suburbia.
So although im not sure I make suburban primitive art. or at least posted any .maybe I am suburban primitive and don't know it. or maybe I do . who knows..
