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good afternoon and welcome
thank you very much for joining us press special talk i distinguish artist k walking stick
one of a series of arts programs that the national museum at the american indian is
presenting in connection with the exhibition can't explain content prenatal art collection
it's a great pleasure and honor to introduce k walking stick
over the course of the career spanning forty five years she's created weekly richly textured
anna pocketed belongings addressing issues that mixed ancestry
personally collected history and physical and spiritual relationships with the land
her stamina worked the chief justice serious at the nineteen seventies is featured in the
bent it's plain exhibition
walking stick with a professor of art at cornell university from nineteen eighty eight to two
thousand five
she became the first native american artist in nineteen eighty five
to be included in nature chances history of arts incident and essentially art history
survey text
she's been honored with many awards including at john mitchell foundation award
the i don't like me seems distinguished artist award
a national honor award for achievement in the arts
from the women's caucus for art
official artist fellowship in painting from the national endowment for the arts
and most recently the prestigious we crasner foundation depicted justly crasner grants
from the pollack resnick foundation
she holds a master of fine arts camp at institute and will be awarded it an honorary doctorate
this spring barricaded university
walking sticks were kissing collected in inks edited nationally and internationally by numerous
institutions
opening the metropolitan museum of art
the national gallery of canada montclair art museum detroit institute of arts pregnancy
in
charity foundation anti israel museum in jerusalem
she lives in new york when exhibition of her new paintings had a living in the city painting
in the wild is on p_r_i_ kitchen kelly gallery through may seven
please join me in welcoming k walking stick
if you're a
cellphone go up its probably not mine
exit last night
but it could be anywhere
please don't
capability the
shalini
it's nice to be here nice to be in washington
nice to be at the enemy
i want to tell you about what happened
it inline o higher
i've got to talk about my work
more or less chronologically
and that i'm going to with that i think try to contextual eyes a little bit by showing
works
that i was looking at the time
and i will try not to recap when i finish
because that is a at them
actually its mind
the pain that you're looking at
was done in nineteen sixty five
okay when she still ahead of that
i was thirty years ago
i was a married lady
had two kids
had dot had gone to graduate school
uh... was paining in the style that was popular more or less at the time
a kind of hard edge
acrylic
but most of that was abstract at the time
i was doing other things with it
the pain that you see behind me
mood is more or less what i was working out at the time
you know they're very different the color on the computers totally different isn't it
interesting alot
yet
uh... this was the period of the uh... feminist movement
and there were sightings any and
of revolution if you will
in the way we thought about our own sexuality
and so these paintings every flack toasted to ideas someone i think
and uh... this is called me and my neon box
the and articulate that
elec insisting that i'd say is that the evidence to the women because she thought it was a
little
equipment
most of the best
uh... anyway i was doing these high dates figurative works
uh... and this was uh...
late sixties early seventies
this is a payments in my shell right now
this is called
austin's and
it's attaining about the moran apo river
uh... my husband and i go out there
technological wicked drawings take photographs
and that this is about that place
and i've been idealist bond series the paintings about the raffle river some of which i'll
show you later but i want to show you
this stretch of time in the changes
from these hard-edged
figurative works
of the sixties
to these
uh... rather
i would say straightforward realistic
paintings of the rather po
uh... river area
that supports has lifted
uh... that happens to be aluminum leave
i'll show you more of these later
by the way could we possibly do anything about the light in here
it's of the strive to be much stronger if there's a little less sunlight
and we lower the shades or anything
well these go all the way down
i sort of stuff out of that before
this case
uh... is called
for john rich
and is that any richer
yeah good good
v
well c magic vic athens
in nineteen seventy too
uh... heidi or maybe is about nineteen seventy i had one to go to graduate school after i
got out of
college and uh... i didn't have the money and i had babies i mean you know it's just
way too complicated
uh...
i found out about the death of fellowship for women
in the in about nineteen seventy apply for study
from idea a reason
they are right in
one this scholarship
which is a few geol
and
paid for my way to graduate school
would pay baby care
uh... and there was a really great program
i'm sure they don't have a martyr was too good to last you know
but anyway i want is said and for it
and went to graduate school in nineteen seventy two
at about that same time as you probably realized
uh... the american indian movement was very active they took over
alcatraz happily seventy three
uh... so that all of this
uh...
really revolutionary
changes were happening
at this time all of which affected me
uh... i didn't know don't know how you could have been alive at that time and not been
affected by it after all
about the women's movement
uh... made me acp
realize
i mean i'd i've grown up
i'd grown up
with this notion that i was expected to do things
slightly like you
make something personal
was what i was told
so i was expected to do things i grew up around
women who work
i thought it was not in the picture
so consequently
i know that i was going to do something with my life and
go to school expected to do things
i think that the women's movement
personally outlawed just shut me up yet
it was just another reminder that smart little girls make something of themselves
uh...
so i
went off after the scholarship and got it went to graduate school
black-tie
native american movement
also innovator big effect on me because it made me realize that i had to find out about
my history
uh... this is an size set for john ritchie on which was the
man who led the syracuse at crossed
uh...
the southern part of our country to bahama
on oklahoma cherokee
uh... and it's above the law d
history bike most history
it's bloody
and so this is about this uh...
brave and brilliant and
tragically
who was
uh...
murdered
i've been told by historian said he was assassinated k
i'm sorry
my grandfather's name is john rich walking stick by the way
he was not
of the bridge a family
but he was a obviously which party
but that's politics after that
uh... this is album
deborah potter yeltsin
susan rothenberg thank you very much
uh... the brain goes
lot of things don't go but the pregnancy
anyway but this is a rothenberg for about that time this is nineteen seventy five i
think
and what i want to find out about this
is that
there's uh...
remainder lines and this is a days
lines
and it's a very
uh...
uh... iconic
kind of a look
has eight uh... single color and black and white
very simple
very
our t it has an image butter retains that kind of abstraction
and i think that that probably uh...
was fun i liked about it
anyway getting back to mine
interest in
indian history
uh... so
i was raised in a
white protestant culture
by my stature irish mother
and name was emma mccaig
walking stick
hence there
wavy hair
i but i was raised this notion
that i was a cherokee woman
you know standouts straight k
europe's share
be proud of who you are
instructions down
which is of course that we should all tell our children
whatever they
whatever a background check
uh... so that this woman although she was
uh... separates my hus viper participant
she was
alone in the world she didn't have any support from him
uh... she had five kits to raise their own
sheep she was proud
that her last name was walking stick
she was proud that she had indian children
and she expected ***
to be proud of ourselves
so she was issues that great woman
uh... inouye buried beyond her uh... error
this port eighty ninety eight
so anyway in that in the public schools in syracuse new york
in the forties there certainly was not any kind of
education about indians
and what i knew about indians again from
popular culture
comic books
we'll sit back the theater
cheer the indians
and uh...
uh...
but that's that was fought with by new what most people knew
about native americans in those days
so that
i realized and in my band on nineteen seventy or so
that i have to find out more
i was not a kid
i was a grown woman
but it was it was time
that i
came to accept all that in this
this cliche looking at
is that pain is based on actually it tv that i made
and this is called t_v_ for
and it's was made in graduate school high was experimenting with different ways of making
paintings
and this is acrylic with ported inc
and i had a teacher then who sat i was making some drawings gps
writing about them incentive
conceptual height who
crap a lot
really *** stuff you know
and out because i thought was funny i was just making fun of this
and a lot of what was going on at the time
and uh...
but he commented on the t peaks
he didn't think that it was all funny is i did
he said oh you can't do that case to ethnic
you can't duties
so i of course mid painting of a t
and that johnnie
teach before him
i didn't like
even that being told what to do
uh... at any rate
uh... i was as that said doing a lot of a research about my own history about mike family
history
and
uh...
one of the few things that my father ever said to me i was not as i said not raise with
my father
and uh...
while a few things he said i asked him
wide india deal honor
what historical indian delight because aunt
your opinions that you hear heard about in the movies
work indians
who were supposedly people
and i'm not buying new that they were good indians
and i wanted to know who they were
historically
and he said well snow
as or their or more
what
and she's jobs
and she chose it was a great speaker
uh... great military man in my father would have
admire that
at any rate
i did these
that have to do with the story of cheetos
and i'm going to believe it to you to look up the story dot chief joseph
but suffice it to say that my father was right
uh... he was a brilliant military man
and uh...
who lost
uh... he held off that cavalry for months
and seek to consider
banned across
the mountains and into montana
and in north to bear part where he
finance rendered
only thirty miles from the uh... canadian border
he was with seven hundred and fifty people and there
he surrendered thinking that he would be allowed to go home
and he was not newspeople never went back to their reservation in the
well all mountains
and uh...
the people not that's personal
are at the u mattel a
reservation are
uh... is so he didn't
the they'd general who
he to me surrendered
uh... make promises that he couldn't keep
at any rate i saw this as the tragedy is that i do
much of our history
and so this is a tragedy this piece that you will see in the vantage point show
their art a belief twenty-seven of them up
thirty six of them were made originally
yea they wore about
this history to me baat
if you see them as minimalist extractions using two arcs acted too small arcs into
r_j_r_ sc
on a rectangular field
that's fine
they can be seen simply as extractions part of the new york minimalism of the seventies
they were done from nineteen seventy
i think six
about nineteen seventy seven seventy eight
the
this is that this is small sampling of the because very difficult to make a image of
the whole thing and show it this way
but let me tell you a little bit about the way they were made
this is any
uh...
staying
it is covered with a an acrylic mixed with wax
uh...
but webster's eight dept the uh... pain is put on it with my hands or a knife
these lines are cut
with a
but the lady
and this is paid like a ordered you can probably just barely see it
but it is take time and pulled off after the painters
so there are no prices in these
they are
uh... handmade things
and they've got handmade when you look on to the gallery
they look and me
thursday's not they're not uh...
they're not pristine in any way
and not meant to be
as i said uh... i was i was intrigued by this notion of a remainder line and that's what
these are
these are not painted lines they've remain right
didn't paint
uh... ages now that was there
remainder
outhouse to put it
i did all the variations as far as i know
the process of making them is very clear
and all those ideas are very much a part
seventies new york abstraction
but i hope that notion
that uh...
i hope that doesn't stand in the way in of seeing what is going on
there isn't a monster listen
that is
projected by v
uh... paint
that i don't think
you have to have an artistic ation to get
and
date the repetitive
party
implies movement or a dance
but the
design of the pieces themselves
are very static
there is a states's
in these pieces
implies
as does i would think
so that there is an attempt here
to imply like he is
through
totally visual means
this wonderful instead
is from spiro amount
i think it's oklahoma city
and
it protests are yesterday in in real life but it's just such a thrill for me
it's not
it's a
maybe
eight ten inches
plus the horns it's looks gigantic here but a small
and it is bearing handmade talk about having a handedness
this really does he if
i didn't touch it i don't think with my bare hands like had close to home
if he texted you would be touching
something that was
uh... made in eleven hundred a_d_
are about them
vario
there a
redhill int
of humanity
it's just
loaded
it's a loaded thing
i saw a lot of art of this nature
when i was making those chief joseph pieces
at the end
michael rockefeller
wing of the metropolitan mostly
african
south american but nevertheless
it in-depth work ourselves headsets handedness
uh... or up
of of humanity about it
that had a big affect on me and had a big affect on the way
that i'd worked in the future
uh... you can see that this
this is not pride this is not ready stuff
this piece is called
uh... for little crow
uh... built for us to talk about it now
bury my heart it landed the took me here to read that book
read it for a while and get upset and put it down for a month to
uh... pick it up and read it
anyway
i'm not gonna tell you all the stories
but this is the next
series
of work i did after
that she chose a series
anne in also is
handmade
this is the hand
applied surface
there's a square very panama again
uh... of square
an implied it triangle
to parsons papas circle
an online
this simplistic
possible
components
to make
obtaining they are designed on a grid
uh... degrade the imp
by it
is that it that
this laying is half of that
size of the uh...
stretcher
so everything in the east
is related geometrically
which gives you that kind of
uh... com i think
kind of unity
but they are not about
objects
they're not about
pictures of things
they are
about nothing itself
just said may i ask
is about itself
it's about
that you're next
with it shall eyes
this is about
this object
uh... it is
rather like
sculpture
uh... this is called
of shootout by i just lost it by can't i'm sorry i can't tell you
uh... i've all i know it's catching device please sweet things
i saw this for this staying up here as a catching devices that goofy
and there are actually sleeping so the floor embedded in the pain to get surface
and it's of course this marvelous red
uh... a lot of people saw these paintings as gary graham
fine don't think i did
i really don't
but people uh... seem to think of them as slices that work
painful
well i didn't see it that way
if every if you see in that way that's fine because
a lot about head
of references to me as i said to
american history which is because they have any al
there is a line at the top
i don't know if you can see it on the very edge
by this time i i was double layer in the campus to support the weight of the paint
it there is any kind of bob
uh... plastic
uh...
co-op this rather like to ask the parents
holding that the ark forward
uh...
i would have to make it w can thus be able to do that
they were very simple
in their final the
format
but very difficult to construct
because i was
layering campus with glue
and then layering that the page
in multiple layers many layers sometimes thirty layers of paint
uh... and the pain is heavy studies
uh... awaited time
as sent up a bunch of these dot two george long fission when he was out in california
at uh...
davis for they shall
and he said
you must've been a longshoreman in europe
last night
this is like that
big girl
these are this sharpest
is scratched
and ob although in the service as educated
to give it texture
to give it life to give it ah... energy
this surfaces scratched in different ways
some of them i scratched without
uh...
screwdriver
somewhat if you had a
uh... the sharp edge to it i originally
scratched some of my fingernails has hurt me i don't like to be hurt so i didn't do
that anymore
but these are big these are not small pains
this is atopy ons
it's called
mcr group
i believe it's also done in about seventy five is seventy six
i happen to be a big fan of top yes
this is
probly marble dust
among other things it is still very energetic on the surface fairy
lively
it is abstract of course
and yet it use
uses but i would call
before correction sign in the middle of it
to him it was not a for direction sign of course
i assume it was simply across
but there are suggestions of
of writing nursing chechens in here
non across i see it now the criterion here
uh... and there is simple straightforward color
this piece is called genesis violent garden
it is any setia continuation of these i did these pieces
this by the way is owned by the metropolitan they said never shot at
denoted by it and that column up they get out of all
this is console stance
and it was uh... depressed on an winter solstice
and it is at that richard changes i made it this is about
disqualified surely these paintings
progressed from very flat
very um...
quiet color usually
to much more
lively much more aren't
visual caller i mean either it's
the outside world rather than
on the back of my head
and
as some issue into this change of cali introduced chick space
so even though these things are very object like
there is a suggestion of space
because of his suggestion of color
this is the the hess
i don't know the sixties
added just on i'd and found this image
long after i had done these paintings i didn't ever see this piece
when i was doing them but
i'd think that there was something in the air
because this certainly does remind me of the pieces that i was doing
and this is the last piece i did all of this group
it's called
cardinal points
it is now in the heard they actually put it up often
and uh...
at are headed to idea of lecture of that has
is for directions crosses in it
amassed by some envelope what is this all about why do you use his crosses all the time
and for one thing it is one of the few
images that we could say is a pan indian
image
you see it in many many native peoples work
across this country
and as a matter of fact you see that everywhere around the world
uh...
uh... my was the direction that you showed me up apart
friendship and that hannah
cross and that for directions for us that
this kind of people armed across
it also means something else
it's also about
for me this unity
beach clean christianity
and native
culture
i was raised as i said in a
of white protestant culture i was recently very christian home
i don't mean fundamentalist christian it had nothing to do with politics
but that his if you raise in that kind of home it's going to affect you later whether
you caught hang onto that religion or not
and
so that for me this kind of symbolized
this unity
uh... on
uh... viewpoints about
god in our lives
because most native people believe in the creator
in their life
and as to
christians
so this painting had out are wonderful
unifying kind of thing for me and
of crisis uh... calling it cardinal points of this cardinal red and cardinal for sent
i couldn't resist going at
i had a wonderful time paying this
they had sparkles in it and i just
does bark off right now
was marvelous improbable one of the first times that i use kal penny
later on i did
used leaf but
the gulp eight is always
adopted for me
the
uh... in nineteen
you know i've unless the u_s_
but i think it was about eighty five
idea does extractions
that is dense uh... soprano five websites traction center
so much about texture
uh... i did those from nineteen
uh... seventy
and something seventy nine
something like that
uh... through expanded for quite a while
uh...
i would say are not for ten years
this piece was done and uh...
maybe later
but it's when i was asked to uh...
painting
for the for shell
about the american elm and uh... i actually did at extraction as you know i do have strategies
that suffering that's fine
and so i did this piece that was a pain of the alum
wealthy abstractions
holland together and realize that g this is terrific the way they look together you know
i love this
and sell are finding out later that painting but this that is how this started these get
tix really almost accidentally i saw something i'd liked
and ice on something
that head some sort of meaning for me here
this is the renovo gripper
i waz was going to the ground floor of the day and to its in northern new jersey it's
very wild
but very close to the city
this is
uh... not really what i want to do
i wanted to i've i'd find there's too much
an abstraction
of the movement of this and it wasn't my intention
to make get tix that one side was the extraction of the other
i happen to like that the payment of this spring
i want to show you something
does this look like home that
you know where that is
no
that's the saints
uh... garage
when i
doubt i did this thing in when i was in college
and uh... this is that that uh... mr ms saint live next door
and this is their bad carriage house which he uses a studio he was that
a well-known glance maker dress designer
he actually worked on the washington fever
uh... but this is the paying i did what i was in college
uh... and i think i was a sophomore
and i want to show you something that was
basically landscape that i dot did early on
and of course this is a walking stick basket
this section is that
this is my with my basket that i don't accept
photograph that i found
but i have a basket made by them i walking stick
basket weaver
just exactly like this
as a technical
cherokee basket has a square bottom around top
i love that notion
that they go from
one geometric shape
into another in the same form
i think that's a wonderful idea
it's it has a profound that the for me that i just love
uh... in nineteen eighty nine
my husband for
almost thirty years passed away very suddenly
uh... he was a relatively young man he was of fifty-five years old
on it was done
shaken say the least
because it was totally unexpected
uh... i was
out of school by then our graduate school of course and working in painting into teaching
part-time around it
berries places and
by children were more or less grown by them then i'm not sure children ever actually grew
up that that's correct
about they were out of the house
but that summer i did a number of pains that year
about that lost as penny is actually called lost and i was
by then teaching at attn
uh... cornell
and i had been living inc right now on i was come meeting back and forth to see my husband
uh... everyone by the way to sell yeah
and so i didn't
i did these paintings about that but uh...
huge change in my life
about that uh...
and there with the states
uh...
that blaze affecting minor change in my life that was huge
huge change services called lost it is uh...
acrylic
with oil on top of it here which is question i need
this product is
oil
dot was lighting and stay out
all these repaired with my hands
and this is the uh...
waterfall
that uh...
once in a minute parked on
uh... what is in that part really treatment
three men
is straining park in attica new york
uh...
david is
uh... from ithaca that's why he knows
at any rate
arrived
the waterfalls in africa
are gorgeous
saw the best things about it the connections waterfalls
thereby thinks is cornell but through the work force
and their they're wonderfully moving
and it became a symbol for me
about this huge
change in my life
powerful ongoing
water flow this
uh...
underhand
cascade of water
they couldn't be stopped
this this tremendous change
and so i painted aligned series
of these waterfalls benefit the new york
this is called the abyss
i actually
stood
looking down on the water
drawing it which was stupid
i admit it because it was a muddy day
a lot of kids
did themselves admit those waterfalls
but it was exciting to draw
exciting to paint
and uh... i must say they're cute it i hate it when people say always artists are relaxing
you know
well actually it's not relaxing
but ed it is did does have curative powers
it does get us through the tough times
i think i overheard wrecked saying something about that
it dosent see other david that art is
uh... i don't know how other people who live
their lives
without it
you know i really don't know how they get
mother wednesday music i think you know
play tennis or something but
i have
and everything that i have
experienced
is in the paintings
but also the paintings
had given me
it this training
tool if only
so it's a very reciprocal url arrangement we have here
you all know it was displaying used by
this hangs in the metropolitan
it set by in mend a up-to-date christ
uh...
in fact they didn't have it up the last time he was there and i was furious
but i think they learned about its
they can not my pain if they wanted
but this painting was important to me for a lot of reasons i mean i happens to be gorgeous
uh... it's rather large
i would say that that christ figures
certainly life-size
but this is
about
about the cup arial becoming
the income priority
ongoing
and the art historian supports disagree with me but that's alright
no one could paint
stolid slash any better them and a
it is absolutely
heady
this is a weighty
he's a great big guy
and yet this product
is lifting off the ground
at hand
lifts up
he's dead
and yet the body
is changing it's lifting
so that
i came to realize that we as painters
who are using stempel mud
solid is it's mode
an oil in mud in
polymer loaded something else is
but it really isn't anything of value
it isn't anything out of natural
uh... magic
it's not
moon dust
it is simple
basic
and yet ruled that simple basic stuff
we can
imply
really
deep
ideas i had to leave
which of course is the reason i painted all these years
because what paint can imply
so he's implying
that this christ
is rising
this piece is called
uh...
letting go
leading dole from
chaos to calm
this is the end of the year
if there's a big piece itself forty eight by ninety six i believe
and it hangs in the right on the c_n_n_ and corning
it is also about the river and the waterfalls in africa
and i i i had come to a wrestling above of
resolutions of my anger by then
and i really felt that i had let go
of garbage
that i was uh...
dealing with
this piece is a charcoal drawing from tucson arizona is called lucy lee
and this is the pain that is based on that
drawing i want to show you that process because
i have often times work that way that i would make black-and-white drawings
and then they painstaking on them
uh... i suppose the black and white rice or made in part
to work out that you wishes
but i happen to like to draw a lot
so a lot of it is just because undoing what i love
you all know that this is left
as is marsden hartley
analyzed biased partly he has a wonderful opportunity
uh... it's an italian is go for
it's just something so
wonderfully awkward and i think we live in an awkward age
others had very little graceful about it
i think he has captured something honest about
uh... who we are in what we are here
this is the price of southwest
has a little
crosses i suppose this is a
uh... pueblo uh... burial ground that's what i always forget it was cemetery
but it's just a wonderful peace
and i've i've always loved charlie
this is called
uh...
shoot you know the brain is really uh... wreck today
but this piece is called
uh... where are they generations
and i'd idea
i was very active in making a lot of paintings
during the ukl incident entering
uh... celebration of
columbus's invasion of the americans
i wrote uh... i've made a um...
small piece of sculpture
wrote a a little poem about it
in fourteen ninety-two twenty million
now we're too
where the children
where the generations never born
so that is being that was a copper
right here
and of course this is to sign i did this is sub
a painting it by drawing up to sun during the day
and did the painting
itis which is the collazo became night
i thought the night was sad
but it had to be
i think it's ed by the way this sudden
padres the copper was then there's i happen to like metals
but also
that band was really rate
to get those metals out of it
this is
as action distances that in the wrong place
fishing is uh...
we'd love to have marston is what this cut is called
and amazed that color but lots of mars is because
i thought that they this also has a rather outboard quality
uh... there's something about that liver read in that case a yellow but i think it's very
awkward
but i enjoy the painting anyway it's going to nairobi
to pick in the embassy there for a couple years
but does that affect that
this is called uh...
atlanta role
and uh...
identically many times as extended et cetera lot of effect on my painting
but this
pieces are called than ariel peanut
and i believe it's about might aging
i was about sixteen when i went
within the uh...
within the copper
which is uh... busted i've figure the rest has to be about aging and what else you know
uh...
within the rust there are set by its plastic bat safire's hidden
and this is uh...
part of the uh... pray lp in the 'em
then it'll region
in northern verito region but of course it's american rockies color
had a good time rusting that steel actually
this painting is in new york
it's a aguchi o
and it's of course christ telling
satan
get the behind me
and it's a wonderful penny of course the star of largely or partially maybe
of this is the devil the double is just wonderful
he's gotten nasty fellow
you know the which always is that
that's the starring role
but i love this painting i love this crazy mountainside love that
there's a playful dance about this pain that i assumed icio intended
that today has big gold leaf ground
it is in the frick museum you can go see it anytime
nineteen she is not necessary
the uh... outs in northern italy
and this is called
you'll read although the gift
and the gift of course is italy itself
and is being
figure
this uh... icon like figure this
almost patrick lipstick figure
system and uh... rockies
seat to see what happens
taken american to to italy
symphonies outs
and his part
of the house incorporated into the alps by the way that the color here is just god-awful
uh... i'm sorry it's i don't know i had no explanation for that
and got into dancing figures all this is the influenced by italy of cource
the golden
uh... the interesting figures
and there's one other huge job
that i made it this time
i stopped using my hands i start using a brush
and of course
the abstraction is gone
uh... selectively mason hughes changes in my work
and this is um...
again the alps isn ta ca
uh... outside capetown
and did this is called uh...
chose so which means joy yes of course
because it was a joyous time in my life
and dancing is about at least here
that chile what is more fun than dancing around naked
not many people get the opportunity to do that barry often
to take it
this is called an an arizona
so i did a lot of paintings having to do with figures
uh...
i hadn't painted figures
since those early flat figure she saw
in the seventies and this was by then
into the nineties
this piece is called
or today
leaving the garden you notice the figures are going in opposite directions
this is a little painting by the way
this is from the national
this is called our land
it's thirty-six by seventy two inches
it uses
uh...
our flesh bag patterns
from by the nez perce people
st joseph is in s purse
and i've always been interested in their history
one of the reasons i like par flashbacks is they're made by women
now this is completely women's work the men painted buffalo robes
the women painted par flash
and that the painters who are really good we're very honored by their people
uh...
the park police bags can certainly be seen here
uh... and said many uh... museum collections have them there
american abstraction in my view
they were not done
for the same reason that that modernist did them in europe
but they are extract nevertheless
uh...
the uh...
scholar baylor tried said
that the reason that women did them
reason that women did them was that they are closer to the cosmos
so they can do that stretch in
uh... that uh... from the dead aruba mountains by the way of which were uh... cell announced
that the chief justice people uh... crossed
this is their papa cattle field i told you that i would show you something from bear
paw
this is their pa battlefield is
i believe
twelve inches five forty eight
does that make sense yes
so it's very narrow very long
and it is uh... at first when you see it is just just a simple
landscape but then you realize that something is happening
and it gets dark in the sky and then it gets red over here
and the that land there the place
carries a memory of that battle
carries a memory of those people that died there
chief justice brother died at that battlefield
there is a
all are off
there
that you can feel and i'm not into bhula life but
there is a door that you can see the field
uh...
that is a place where uh... native people go today
uh...
to uh... honor their
uh... dead brothers and sisters
so that this painting is about
that place but also about
what happened there
it is called hear the voices
this is uvm
also
data regardless
and it's sad pattern from uh...
uh... corn husk ek
i like this notion of using
pattern with
uh...
landscape
because it implies that the people
still owe netway it's still there there stood still their land but it's all they are still
there
in a sense
and also it's rather like using the abstractions that i used to really on one side was abstract
and the other night
these are
drawings i may have an island is a a drawing
uh...
that was done in preparation for the paintings
in in part but is also these drawings were also shown individually
there about twenty five inches
by fifty
this piece is called
uh... we're still dancing
they just we're still dancing
it's in the hunter
uh...
hunter museum in chattanooga
and its powers
behind it
the road to santa fe
and that uh...
this is called a farewell to the smokies
and it's been the denver art museum it's of course about the trail of tears
years ago i swore that i would never do a trail of tears pain in their also damp corny
they're really you know by wouldn't do that and yet
of course i had to eventually
when i finally saw the
smoky haze
and realize what those people left
i had to do a painting about what they had given up
but they had been forced to give up
is about this beautiful
healthy
uh... land that had so much to offer them
and he went to the local home
and being told that i should stop
but i'm going to continue
soap
this baby is in the better part is the amount so they have in common they see their
and i wanted to show it to you because it's one of the few pieces that every ton of winter
it is the uh... while our mountains in oregon whether gold leaf
it is time for a cold oppressed and gold leaf
uh... sky
i find that it's been possible for him he did not keep returning
uh... believed
paintings
i haven't talked at all about what the districts are about
i will later if you wish
i want to show you this last painting
to remind you where we started
but also uh...
to talk a little bit about
but i expected paintings
hi expect anything
to communicate ideas
i've spent two paintings to stimulate people to think
annexed explains to give
the i pleasure
and i expect them in some way
to be beautiful
beautifully is to be a four-letter word you know
it is not stepped in to be peaceful again
i have of afriend i was complaining in a letter to her that
uh... my paintings are no longer a cheat
and she said don't worry k
it she can beautiful is the new edgy and i like that and i think i'll in there
thank you very much
you have questions
questions
and i have a book that that code id to my story to tell you
between
and uh...
and that you don't have to report this weapons
in two thousand seven in mind that show
by madman
manger pakistanis
and uh...
we found one almost immediately nl within a month or so
and
now wearing out together
we had a blessing ceremony in two thousand nine
and i was alone for twenty years
and i had no idea
that i was coming
if anybody that's that's a person i had a busy life at i'ma panerai and a lot to do
with them
i didn't realize as lonely and so i was going on longer
cell
and had a beautiful life as an artist
and i have a wonderful life now
unhappily