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I had the boards for this triptych/trinity textured and started an initial background. I worked with it quite a while that day getting a Mayan tree of life pattern on each of them. When I was satisfied with the design, I pulled back a ways from the boards to get a different perspective. I deepened and slowed my breath as I gazed at the boards and prayed for inspiration with no avail. Later that night I went to bed still not knowing what I was going to paint.
I am lucid in my dreams and find myself in a large cage at night in a clearing of a jungle somewhere in South America. Out of the thick, dark foliage next to my lone jail cell emerged a man with a jaguar skull on his head accompanied by a black jaguar on each side of him. The man walked, passing straight through the thick bars of the jail and took a seat just a few feet away and facing me. Staring into my eyes, he tells me a story of a priest and his son. Although no memories of any details of that tale remain the next m...

I have been creating art all of my life. But it wasn’t until I began seeking spiritually that I found inspiration to share my journey of life through painting. I believe that artists of all kinds are scouts of the human spirit. I feel that It is our responsibility to delve deep within ourselves into the greater potential of who we are and then share that with whatever talents we are gifted with. Once, at a gathering of Native elders and youth, a spiritual leader of the Northern Cheyenne people sitting across from me stated in a very powerful way that, “To be a true Indian, you have to know who you are and then give that back to the people.”