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Among the most famous and sought after work by Helen Hardin, Santa Clara Pueblo, is a series of three aquatint etchings she named Changing Woman, Listening Womanand Medicine Woman.  Changing Woman, executed in 1981, was the first of the three.  Hardin said she did not intend to work in a series but "when Changing Womanturned out so well I decided to go ahead."  Scott 1989, 135

Exactly a year later, she made Medicine Woman, and the following year, Listening Woman.  In this series, Hardin concentrated on attributes of women-self-sufficiency, active anguish, covert ecstasy, acceptance of grief, and the virtue of endurance.  She focused on the heads of the women to emphasize the strength of the head because women are emotional and sensitive.

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