Portrait of Frayed
Mixed Media, pastel, pencil, conte, charcoal, on Stonehenge Paper, 22” x 30”, 2022
Portrait of Frayed
Mixed Media, pastel, pencil, conte, charcoal, on Stonehenge Paper, 22” x 30”, 2022
Bloodline, Keeper of the Seeds
2021, 30″ x 98″ x 18″ in, Unique cast bronze with patina, cedar, and steel
It is a matriarchal society that my family lineage comes from; the woman cared for the children and the stories of their family. They told the history and planted the seeds for the next generation. Their lives, my life, and that of my daughter are full of the twists and turns that women hold in our society.
The Cigar Figures come from a childhood Native American story that my mother told of the “Stick People.” The “Stick People” would run through the night and call your name; if you went with them, you were never heard from again. She never described the figures, and I was always drawn to the idea of what they looked like. The Cigar Figures are my reimagining of that story, now a story of family and my past—a complicated narrative of loss, survival, and resilience. The figures are made from real cigars and found sticks, all cast in bronze. The faces are of the ancestors and family shaped from the idea of a cameo or silhouette painting to capture the faces of the families.
When hung, the light casts a shadow of the figures on the wall. This shadow represents memory for me. Like a shadow, these memories cannot be held, and in the end, we are all only a shadow in history, shadows on this earth.
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Mustang, OK 73064 | 405.308.0239
21”x 23” x 13”, Unique Cast Bronze with Patina
It started with looking at my children playing and making their other world, if they needed wings they would make them from paper and sticks tied together. Their masks were transforming and all-consuming for them they believed and they became the bird.
We use a mask as a facade to be the thing we sometimes can not be, to fill that spot or give us courage.
Sometimes it is the unknown that we fear so we do not step when it is the step into that unknown that we need to live and breath. The figure prepares to fly away on her paper wings. It is a leap of faith that her wings will hold. In that moment she must be fearless to take the leap.
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Exhibition History
Portrait of Coyote and the Anguish of Mortality
Mixed Media, pastel, pencil, conte, charcoal, on Stonehenge Paper, 30” x 22”, 2022
Bloodline: Building Community
Unique Cast Bronze, Patina, Cedar and Steel, 20” x 84” x 10”, 2022
There is the family you are born into and then there is the family you make. They are the friends you made in school, the neighbor’s you live by and the colleagues at your work. You watch the children grow and tell the secret wishes you have for them. You have meals together; you share in the joy the ups and the down and you bring them love and kindness when they have lost a loved one. We build an extended family that grows year by year and that makes for a community that is full of rich diversity, compassion, and love.
The Cigar Figures come from a childhood Native American story that my mother told of the “Stick People.” The “Stick People” would run through the night and call your name; if you went with them, you were never heard from again. She never described the figures, and I was always drawn to the idea of what they looked like. The Cigar Figures are my reimagining of that story, now a story of family and my past—a complicated narrative of loss, survival, and resilience. The figures are made from real cigars and found sticks, all cast in bronze. The faces are of the ancestors and family shaped from the idea of a cameo or silhouette painting to capture the faces of the families.
When hung, the light casts a shadow of the figures on the wall. This shadow represents memory for me. Like a shadow, these memories cannot be held, and in the end, we are all only a shadow in history, shadows on this earth.
Available
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The Studio
Mustang, OK 73064 | 405.308.0239
Currently on view in Seen Unseen, Feb 21 – July 14, Duhesa Gallery Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado
Bloodline: Building Community
I Am More than Fluff
Unique Cast Bronze, Patina, Glass, Brass, and Feathers, 14” x 6” x 6”, 2022
I am more than the view that my people are frozen in time, lost to a romanticized ideal of who the Native Americans were, we are more, and we are still here. I am not this fluff; I am here; I am loud and larger than life.
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Mustang, OK 73064 | 405.308.0239
Lost Within My History
Unique Cast Bronze, Patina, Glass, Brass, 14” x 6” x 6”, 2022
As a young girl, my dad had these amazing, beaded works of art that he made, and from time to time, I would start but then stop or walk away from learning, leaving pieces in mid-process. I was young, then later my life was busy, and one reason after another kept me from history and time. My dad has passed away, and that time I could have spent with him learning and hearing his stories of how and why the thread it pulled through the beeswax and the cut of the bead and the way to hold the needle is lost. I lost not just the history but him and that time with him. I am now looking to teach myself these ways, and I hold him in my mind and my heart as I go forward.
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Lion Heart
Unique Cast Bronze, Patina, Encaustic on Birch, 20”x 16” x 4.5”, 2022
Removable Bronze Mask
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Mustang, OK 73064 | 405.308.0239
Lion Heart
Incognito
Unique Cast Bronze, Patina, and Cedar, 13”x 4.5”x 3”, 2022
Sold
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Mustang, OK 73064 | 405.308.0239
With Grace
Unique Cast Bronze, Patina, and Cedar, 9”x 3”x 3.5”
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Mustang, OK 73064 | 405.308.0239
With Grace