Friday, April 29, 2011

Taos Powwow, "Women Record Their Men"

Creating this preliminary color sketch from reference and memories collected from a trip to Taos, New Mexico last summer, I hope to proceed to a large painting this summer. While attending an All Nations Powwow below Taos Mountain on tribal lands as invited "guests" my daughter and I witnessed women recording their men in a drum circle by using their cell phones. While tradition is all around, in costume, in the fact that women are not allowed in the drum circle, the twenty first century is there too in glowing cell phones.

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