al things considered — when i post my masterpiece #1440
first posted in facebook june 12, 2025
yatika starr fields -- "white buffalo calf women march" (2017)
"my work begins swiftly and intuitively, as momentum shapes the composition on canvas. i challenge myself to integrate the physical environment around me with its unseen emotional life. gradually the narrative of the piece is revealed" … yatika starr fields
"in times like these we need to be strong we need to carry on we need to get along, hold on and right what's wrong in times like these we need to find a way to make a better day keep my feet on the ground turning 'round come what may" … leroy marinell & jim tullio
"in 'white buffalo calf women march' fields interprets a moment from the fight against the construction of the dakota access pipeline at the oceti sakowin camp. this painting honors the labor of women-led movements at standing rock together with the lakota oral history of the white buffalo calf woman, a figure of solidarity, fluidity, and hope within lakota and other communities. on this canvas, the feeling of hope is found in the liminal space of the highway and the vastness of the sky. for fields, painting allows these subjects to exist as they do in the world, intertwined" … from the 2019 exhibition 'portrait of the artist as an indian / portrait of the indian as an artist', guest curated by rayna green
"NO KINGS!" … al janik
