- In this Interdisciplinary Still life Painting, "Shadows,"
an original oil on panel, I wanted to explore the spirit of the
Anasazi's absence as subject matter for the third time. I also
wanted to sculpt a frame that matched the one as subject matter
in the image of the painting. First I wrote a song at Natural
Bridges Park, Utah, in an Anasazi ruin after hiking the canyon
trail which was like a great hall filled with petroglyphs as
writing on the wall. Then I painted the first version (16"
x 20" photo n/a), then the second No. 73, then I painted
this painting No. 104, which is the third version in this series,
this one having a matching sculpted and guilded frame.
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- SHADOWS
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- Only the clouds cast the shadow
of the Buffalo on the ground.
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- In a great hall on a canyon wall the Anasazi left
their magic message for us all.
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- Love your mother earth for all
that life is worth.
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- We have spread ourselves thin into the wind, and
we're
wandering with the spirits until we're back again.
Paul McMillan
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- (I hope to post the copyrighted
melody at some point)
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