Empowerment - Oil Painting

Medium: Oil on Canvas
Size: 30in x 40in
Year: 2023

A Chickasaw and Choctaw elder, an emblematic figure resonating with tales both traditional, historic, and modern.  The canvas is saturated with the hues of history and modernity, conjuring a Whistlerian allure with its masterful play of light and shadow.  She embodies not just age, but eons of cultural transformation, seamlessly interlinking the past's proud legacy with the present's dynamic reality.

Her shawl, resplendent in its modern Native asethics, envelops her as a testament to a culture that grows and adapts, while never losing sight of its origins. The vivid, almost spontaneous depiction of beadwork and jewelry seems as if the very essence of time is captured, fleeting and yet, eternally profound.  Loose and gestural, they stand as tributes to the many hands that crafted them and the countless stories they've borne witness to.

Poetic musings, this piece doesn't just offer a glimpse but an immersion into a universe where women are both the tellers and heroes of their own tales. To gaze upon it is to journey through time, to embrace the powerful legacy of women, and to recognize the unbreakable thread that connects past, present, and future.