"mni wiconi gduha mawani" (I carried the sacred water)
48" x 48" oil on linen
2005-2006
Above
is a portrait of Germaine Standfast-Sitting Crow-Chinn painted with her
Medicine wrapped. Germaine is a Sisseton-Wahpeton Dakota Sioux Indian
living in South Dakota.
Below, a portrait of Germaine with her Medicine unwrapped.
Germaine with Medicine unwrapped
60" x 36" oil on canvas 2006-2007 (detail) germaine with medicine unwrapped
60" x 36" oil on canvas 2006-2007
August 2007 missYng pictures, Los
Angeles, CA, in colaboration with artist and Germaine's family,
arranged for a instalation opening on farm in Vermillion, SD. missYng pictures is
currently producing a video documentary on the process of my painting a
portrait of Germaine. A traveling performance/instalation of paintings,
teepee, drums, and video documentary is planed upon completion of
documentary.