She even sat like regal royalty. She was there as living history, a link to her mother, who was a link to her mother, and so on back through all the troubles and trials the Sioux people have gone through, clear back to the days when they were masters of the Northern Plains. This painting was featured on the cover of 'ART Talk' magazine in Arizona. The model for the painting is my wife's youngest daughter Kasha, who lived with us when we first married. It is not a real likeness, since I deliberately changed the face, but it is still definitely Kasha.
Kasha is poised to leave home in the painting.
Symbolic I guess. We purchased it on a trip to Santa Fe the first summer of our marriage. The painting is so soft, quiet and bright, like a new home without furniture. However, the design needed some balance. I tried other flowers, exhibited the painting, didn't like the flowers, rubbed them out and than painted these.