Amanda Shopa

Film Photography & Fiber Arts

Weeks 17–20 of 209 Weeks

This black and white photo, taken in Seoul, South Korea, shows a lion carved out of a large piece of wood. Behind the lion, there are several plants. On the right side of the photo, a bicyclist rides down the sidewalk toward the camera.
This black and white photo shows on oak leaf on a layer of snow. The stem of the oak leaf has gotten caught on a piece of grass sticking up through the snow. This has made the oak leaf spin around in a circle, carving a natural mandala into the snow.
Week 17 (front)
May you feel loved May you feel free from fear May your hopes and dreams be realized Photo notes: This photo was taken at Pacem in Terris in Isanti, MN in Feb 2025. On a walk, I found this "footprint" in the snow. It took me a minute to realize the leaf, with its stem caught around a blade of grass, was spinning around and carving out a natural mandala in the snow.
Week 17 (back)

Week 17 of 209 Weeks:
May you feel loved
May you feel free from fear
May your hopes and dreams be realized

Photo Notes: This photo was taken at Pacem in Terris in Isanti, MN in Feb 2025. On a walk, I found this “footprint” in the snow. It took me a minute to realize the leaf, with its stem caught around a blade of grass, was spinning around and carving out a natural mandala in the snow.

This black and white photo shows the University of Minnesota's iron pour held in 2019. Approximately a dozen people wearing heavy protective clothing and face shields work in the space while a flame bursts out of a large pot. Open the open door, there is an rainbow colored flag. It says "We The People SAY NO To The Bush Agenda." "Bush" is crossed out and "Trump" is written below it in black.
Week 18 (front)
“I would hurl words into this darkness and wait for an echo, and if an echo sounded, no matter how faintly, I would send other words to tell, to march, to fight, to create a sense of the hunger for life that gnaws in us all.” —Richard Wright, Black Boy Photo notes: This photo was taken at the University of Minnesota's last iron pour in spring 2019. It was the 50th anniversary of the iron pour. The flag reads We The People SAY NO to the Bush Agenda. "Bush" is crossed out and "Trump" is written in its place.
Week 18 (back)

Week 18 of 209 Weeks: “I would hurl words into this darkness and wait for an echo, and if an echo sounded, no matter how faintly, I would send other words to tell, to march, to fight, to create a sense of the hunger for life that gnaws in us all.” —Richard Wright, Black Boy (1945)

Photo Notes: This photo was taken at the University of Minnesota’s last iron pour in spring 2019. It was the 50th anniversary of the iron pour. The flag reads We The People SAY NO to the Bush Trump Agenda.

This black and white photo shows a tree log that has fallen on the forest floor. The bark indicates the tree may be a birch or a quaking aspen. The right half of the tree trunk is black, as if the bark may have burned off. Some tree branch shadows fall on the trunk.
Week 19 (front)
"‘Tis not in the high stars alone, Nor in the cup of budding flowers, Nor in the red-breast’s mellow tone, Nor in the bow that smiles in showers. But in the darkest, meanest things There alway, alway something sings." —Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Music" Photo notes: Taken at a state park maybe? (I need to take better notes!)
Week 19 (back)

Week 19 of 209 Weeks:
‘Tis not in the high stars alone,
Nor in the cup of budding flowers,
Nor in the red-breast’s mellow tone,
Nor in the bow that smiles in showers.
But in the darkest, meanest things
There alway, alway something sings. —Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Music”

Photo Notes: Taken at a state park maybe? (I need to take better notes!)

This black and white photo, taken in Seoul, South Korea, shows a lion carved out of a large piece of wood. Behind the lion, there are several plants. On the right side of the photo, a bicyclist rides down the sidewalk toward the camera.
Week 20 (front)
No dejarte dominar por el miedo. Translation: Don't let yourself be ruled by fear. Photo notes: This carved lion, made out of a large chunk of wood, was found at a garden center sort of store (or maybe a landscaper?) in Seoul, South Korea in May 2024.
Week 20 (back)

Week 20 of 209 Weeks: No dejarte dominar por el miedo. Translation: Don’t let yourself be ruled by fear.

Photo Notes: This carved lion, made out of a large chunk of wood, was found at a garden center sort of store (or maybe a landscaper?) in Seoul, South Korea in May 2024.

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