Ama' blessings

Hope you were able to enjoy festive blessings with your family on Mother's Day. Our family has always had strong ties to our 'mother's, for our 'Matriarchs' are the people who make our family whole and rich with family blessings.

This year my masani' will be 87 years old. So, we celebrated with her on Mother's Day with a feast of good food. She received many wonderfully colored flowers and card from her loved ones including her children and grandchildren.  I realize what a wonderful gift she is to all of  us. And, that her being in our lives in someway makes us better people.

I captured this image of her (hands) adorned in her cultural jewelry she years daily and her rose gift,

I hope you get a blessing from it and that it tells you a story of our 'matriarchs.'

Blessings

Nostalgic Tota' Art Mural

Mural Art in Tota'

Photo by Venaya Yazzie 2017

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Its funny how you can live in a place and never really 'see' all it has to offer; visually.

I've lived in my home community for the majority of my life and have always wondered why Tota' does not have more public art or mural art. My community is so rich with talented Dine' artists, from those who paint in the more traditional cultural motifs, to the new-visionary Indigenous art. So, I continue to ask, "Why is there not more mural art?"

This brings me to this post, as I have just found some incredible, and quite nostalgic mural art. This art is quiet wonderful in its depiction of Dine' (Navajo), done in the 1970s era of the Navajo Yei-Bi-Chei motif. I think what I really like about this mural is the pure linear 'crispness' of the images, and too the mix of good colors.

Seeing this mural gives me hope and inspires me to seek out funding for such art. As a visual artist, I feel it is my duty to be vigilant and speak up and about the Arts, especially Indigenous art.

This art hives me hope.

Blessings.