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Black Bear, a member of the Blackfeet nation in Montana, lived in northern New Mexico for 27 years. "I ran, hunted, hiked, and sweated that landscape -- it is a living part of me". Black Bear seeks to tell the stories of life and living through storytelling and his art. It is the Indian way.

14" X 12"

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Pedernal, a flat-topped volcanic core, is located in the Abiquiu Valley of northern New Mexico. Georgia O'Keeffe once said, "I own that mountain". However, indigenous peoples have come to that mountain for thousands of years, using the chert for making their axes, knives and arrowheads. Even tribes that did not get along, respected each other while camped there -- a recognition of common need. It is truly a "sacred space".

My Gia (mother in the Tewa language) demonstrated to me that simplicity and elegant form spoke for itself. I watched her as she worked and like the "old cook", she threw her "ingredients" together, slapped the clay around here and there and whether short or tall, wide or thin, her forms emerged simple and elegant.

18" X 11"

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