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| Detail of art by Venaya Yazzie. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED 2014 |
The images I paint re-create a mural of my childhood experience. I have been blessed, for I grew up amidst the beauty of adornment via my grandmothers and aunties.
As a young girl I watched as the women in my life wore turquoise and silver on their person. They wore turquoise and not beadwork, for that type of jewelry adornment is more a Plains Indian style of jewelry.
The memories of Dine' women and turquoise is my historical memory, the narrative of brown desert-women's dialogue is my power. In this world of chaos and boundaries, their words assist me in navigating through the life of a Navajo/Hopi woman artist.
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