Ted DeGrazia front gate #1 Gallery in the Sun Tucson Arizona no date-2013
by David Lee Guss
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Ted DeGrazia front gate #1 Gallery in the Sun Tucson Arizona no date-2013
Artist
David Lee Guss
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Photograph - Photography
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The front door of Ted DeGrazia's "Gallery in the Sun" is a virtual replica of the one at the infamous Yuma Prison.
Ted's biographer/muse and artistic collaborator Carol Locust writes that she met an aged White Mountain Apache Silas John Edwards at the San Carlos hospital in Phoenix, a roommate of her son Kee.
She casually mentioned this to Ted who had "an immediate interest in the name."
Ted sadly said : "I met Silas when he was in Yuma Prison. He is a very old warrior. He told me that he was just a child when Geronimo taught him traditional Apache spiritual ways. Silas said he started practicing the spiritual ways right after Geronimo and his band were banished to Florida. Silas made his way back to White River, to Fort Apache. When he grew up the Bluecoats were afraid he would start an uprising using Geronimo's teachings. They put him in Yuma prison and said he could never go back home."
When Silas was transferred to a nursing home in Mesa, Ted and Carol would visit him with Ted speaking to Silas in Apache and Spanish talking "of long ago days and events."
"Silas was an old warrior. Ted was an old warrior. Two old warriors, one a warrior for his people, the other a a warrior for beauty and color. Strong spirits, beautiful spirits; it was a rare privilege to be in their presence."
The one thorny problem with this narrative is that the Yuma prison was closed in 1909, the year of Ted's birth.
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