Preliminary Sketch
The Dream catcher
My model for this painting was a young Navajo woman in traditional Navajo dress. In this painting I was playing with the idea of the Dream Catcher as a woman collecting and dispersing dreams and wishes into the wind. The Navajo have many legends and stories of the dream catcher. Some stories say the night air is filled with good and bad dreams, and the dream catcher is used to catch dreams as they float by. Good dreams will find the center hole in the dream catcher, slip through, then slide down the feather. Bad dreams will get tangled in the webbing and fade as a new day begins to dawn.
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Would that could find a statement that would be as meaningful as this art. Will never look at my dream catcher without first visualizing this piece first.
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