Paintings of Time and Place

The Anasazi Thinker: Where to Now? Painting to be seen at Tubac Art Center

The mysteries of the Anasazis have always intrigued me.  Why did they leave Chaco Canyon and other religious sites defining their existence?   A civilization so far advanced that its inhabitants must have thought there would be no end to their  way of life.  This painting alludes to the anguish and uncertainty they must have felt as life crumbled away around them.  Where could they go?  How would they live?  History tells us that they took the road to the desert and mesas lying beyond.  Soon to become the Pueblo tribes, they found a way to take the important elements of their lives with them:  their families and their religion.  Life would require some adaptation, but the most important elements were to survive.

Can we learn a lesson from the Anasazis?  All does not last forever as we know it, but life goes on.  

Taos Serenity--Painting in show in Los Alamos at the Historic Fuller Lodge,

 

I live and work in Taos, New Mexico, a town of beauty, mystery, and spiritual energy.  I was guided here by what some might call the energy of the mountain.  Little did I know at the time almost ten years ago that this town would change my being and my very life.  That it has done.

When I first came. it was only because a man that I had met in Minden, Nevada, wanted to ski the mountain black diamonds and all, the magic runs of the Taos Ski Valley.   I had visited Taos for a day perhaps 8 years before.  I didn't know, but the mountain knew--I would return.

My friend stayed for a year and a half, left, and I just knew that I, too, would leave.  Not so.  I tried.  I went back to California,  I went back to Nevada over and over again,  I was   leaving--the mountain knew otherwise.

What a joy this town has been and continues to be for me!  I started to paint again, I met a man who would change my life, and I continue to feel the spirit of Taos Mountain.  I am a part of Taos.

"Taos Serenity,"  Oil on Canvas, 16" X 15" (framed size), $225.00 USD

Look for this painting at the "Four Seasons" art show, Art Center at Fuller Lodge, Los Alamos, New Mexico,  January 9-February 14, 2009      (505)662-9331  www.artfulnm.org

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