{"id":26,"date":"2020-08-28T20:00:43","date_gmt":"2020-08-28T20:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shamanstates.com\/?p=26"},"modified":"2020-08-28T20:01:14","modified_gmt":"2020-08-28T20:01:14","slug":"26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shamanstates.com\/index.php\/2020\/08\/28\/26\/","title":{"rendered":"Stars and Skulls"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Hello, My name is Chrishaun Keller-Hanna, and I love skulls. Skulls in general, but particularly the cranium of the good ole Homo sapien, the human skull.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is a love that goes as far back as I can remember, starting with my mother\u2019s wig forms. She, like many a black woman, had a collection of hair marked for different occasions. And with that, she needed a form to ensure that the banding and wig cap kept its shape.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One of them had worn out, and my mother went to a beauty supply store downtown to replace it, and I swooped the discarded one before it hit the lid of the garbage can.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I painted a face on it sat it on my dresser, and there it stayed for years, eventually becoming the home of a rather large earring collection (it was styrofoam, so all you had to do was push them in and they wouldn\u2019t go anywhere).&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I never had a collection of skulls as a child&nbsp; (that would have been alarming to my parents &#8211; fundamentalist cult and all that). But I do have one know that I\u2019m an adult (my children have not indicated that this was alarming to them, although they did think the skull that opens into a clock is weird. I still have that clock.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-2 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"610\" height=\"570\" src=\"https:\/\/shamanstates.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Screen-Shot-2020-08-28-at-2.07.17-PM.png\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"27\" class=\"wp-image-27\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shamanstates.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Screen-Shot-2020-08-28-at-2.07.17-PM.png 610w, https:\/\/shamanstates.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Screen-Shot-2020-08-28-at-2.07.17-PM-300x280.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"668\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/shamanstates.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Screen-Shot-2020-08-28-at-2.07.05-PM.png\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"28\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/shamanstates.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Screen-Shot-2020-08-28-at-2.07.05-PM.png\" data-link=\"https:\/\/shamanstates.com\/?attachment_id=28\" class=\"wp-image-28\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shamanstates.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Screen-Shot-2020-08-28-at-2.07.05-PM.png 668w, https:\/\/shamanstates.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Screen-Shot-2020-08-28-at-2.07.05-PM-300x265.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 668px) 100vw, 668px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>All that to say that when it was time to think about a logo for Shaman States of America (SSoA), I wanted you to know that the Hunters were badass, a little dangerous, and living in a world that was just as badass and dangerous. But I also wanted to give the image of a cohesive, patriotic shadow country (notice that I didn\u2019t say government &#8211; I wanted to create a world where authority and the people to be in sync).&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So I counted the states (8) and placed them on the forehead as if to say, \u201cthis is our identity &#8211; we are one of the Eight and The Eight are a whole (and badass).\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And the Stripes? I just thought they looked cool and reminiscent of the American Flag.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/shamanstates.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/wholeskull1-1-1024x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8\" width=\"369\" height=\"369\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shamanstates.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/wholeskull1-1-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/shamanstates.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/wholeskull1-1-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/shamanstates.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/wholeskull1-1-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/shamanstates.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/wholeskull1-1-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/shamanstates.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/wholeskull1-1-1536x1536.png 1536w, https:\/\/shamanstates.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/wholeskull1-1-2048x2048.png 2048w, https:\/\/shamanstates.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/wholeskull1-1-500x500.png 500w, https:\/\/shamanstates.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/wholeskull1-1-1000x1000.png 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 369px) 100vw, 369px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>I like it\u2026 and hope you do too!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello, My name is Chrishaun Keller-Hanna, and I love skulls. 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