My grandmother(s) are my muse(s)

Original Art by Venaya Yazzie
Mixed media 10" x 10"
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED 2015

As a visual artist I have always been inspired by the historical photographs of my family. I have thus incorporated such images into my own paintings such as as the one pictured here. This photograph of my painting is from a series I did concerning 'origin' and the relation of the desert woman as matriarch of the land. The image so the women here is a my great-grandmother Louise Begay Werito.