“Apache Dancers”

This piece evolved over several months. It was a new idea to work larger and when I began, I was not sure where it would go.

I began with the washes, calling in the Ancient Ones, who appeared as the lights that happened in the washes. I wanted it to be about the horse, which I had seen as my animal totem several months past. The horse stands for power, and I had seen myself as the horse standing alone on a mesa. Oftentimes, we see ourselves as a certain totem, but we are uncertain as to what this exactly means for us. We then get to live our adventure to know what that will mean. It is always an individual experience.

The horse has moved around on the canvas as I developed the painting and felt that something should go in the bottom of the canvas. I had seen Apache dancers in the past and have lived in their environment for some time. It came to me to add them in the bottom of the painting. It evolved to make it night with the firelight, the mystery time for visions and dreams.

30” X 40” - $1,600 Mixed Media -   Prints available