Project Type: Studio Works

Masked

MASKED

2012, 22.5” x 3.5” x 4”, Unique Cast Bronze with Patina, and African Mahogany

Masks are layered with meaning from creatures in nature to a child’s imagined world. As children, we make and wear masks to be anything we want or need to be and we could do anything in them, from being a superhero to a bird in flight. As adults, the layers and meaning deepen and grow and these masks are a way to represent the different personas that we need or desire to be in life. They become an identity that one can live through or hide behind in our roles – I am a daughter, a sister, a friend, an aunt, a wife, a mother, artist, and Indian.

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In the Collection of Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art, Indianapolis, Indiana

Exhibition History

  • Conversations: Eiteljorg Native Art Fellowship, Eiteljorg Museum, Indianapolis IN (November 14, 2015-February 14, 2016)

Watching

WATCHING

2011, 24.5” x 17” x 5”, Unique Cast Bronze with Patina, Poplar, and Sterling Silver

This figure is the mother part woman part nature looking out protecting the birds that she has nesting on her leg. The birds I cast in sterling silver are referred to as birds of “birdens”, they are burdens. While things, situations, and/or people may be a burden at times, they are important and precious, for this reason, the birds are cast in the precious metal sterling silver.

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Peto Peto Peto

PETO PETO PETO

Unique Cast Bronze with Patina, Encaustic on Birch
8.5”x 12” x 3”

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As a Delaware/Cherokee Native American, I grew up hearing family stories of shapeshifters with the idea of a trickster who hides their identity, birds as messengers, and owls as bearers of tragic news. In “Peto Peto Peto” you see where the bird is shifting and he is stuck between the two worlds trying to choose, the world of man or the world of the spirit. He has the hands and eyes of mankind but they are still in bird form.