Adobe Gallery Blog

Whitethorne's paintings are full of activity and color.  Usually they are of events on the Navajo Reservation or events of Navajo life.  In this painting, the seven facial items that appear to float across the painting represent the Navajo supernatural Yei*.  Interestingly, it appears that the top of the paining represents a reservation scene of ahogan covered in snow with trees around the area.  The rest of the painting appears to be an underground scene?  In addition to the Yei masks, there are green squares, yellow circles, zigzag elements rising from the base of the painting, and strata of earth in horizontal bands.

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