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This small pastel is an abstracted perspective of Taos Pueblo, turning the clock back to before thre was electricity and modernizations.. I visited the pueblo first when I was 16. I was n Albuquerque for the summer as part of a community work project to build a community center in the poorer Hispanic neighborhood.. The group went to Taos for a summer fiest with dances. We waited for the dancers in the middle of the plaza by a trickling stream going through it. I was so happy to be there;I put my feet into the water and all ofthe women arose at once and began shouting at me. I had not known the water was considered sacred.. I was aghast at my error. Twenty two years later I revisited, this time by invitation, to perform the spiritual Toltec dance for the lower school children. The teachers were moved to tears, the children full of smiles, and I felt I had made balance with my initial encounter with Taos.

I am self taught. I have painted fulltime since 2001 , beginning in watercolor. Many images of the first years were done with my eyes closed. This was about being called, or engaged ,by the sense perception that is mindless, free of image . It required listening to this wordless subtle sense and put marks down on the paper without second guessing. Each year until recently I created a series of work that were shown and selected pieces chosen for a print series. I now work mainly in pastel and oil but not exclusively. I see these series as being the building blocks in this process of becoming an artist from the inside out . Most of what I created was done in places closely aligned to native and mestizo culture in the...