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Moon of Changing Leaves Woodcut

Dawn Senior, of Moonhorse Art Studio, has worked in a wide variety of media including charcoal, oil paintings, woodcuts, gouaches, claybords and scratchboards. Her artwork, especially her woodcuts, are a greatly influenced by Native American art. She lived among the Navaho and Hopi on the Arizona deserts for five years as a teenager, and has also spent time on the Rosebud and Wind River Reservations with the Lakota, and Arapaho tribes. Native American legends and Native American myth are a great inspiration on her artwork, especially her woodcuts.

Moon of Changing Leaves Woodcut - Dawn's Native American-inspired woodcut illustrates the impact of Native American legend and Native American myth on her artwork.

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Limited Edition of 100
Print available: On 13 x 19 watercolor paper (maximum image size 12 x 18). Price is $25 and shipping $5.


More information about this Native American-inspired woodcut below.

The Navajo character of Coyote is sometimes a trickster, a "clown," a fool, an anti-hero, sometimes a sort of folk hero, and possesses great powers. He is a symbol of madness. "If a coyote looks you in the eye, you will go mad." Sometimes he is accompanied by the whirlwind, another symbol of madness.

Spider-Woman taught the Navajo to weave. In Dawn's woodcut, she depicts Coyote jumping over Spider-Woman's loom, his whirlwind is yanking out the threads of her design and spinning them into chaos.

The Lakota, too, have a story. There is a woman weaving. Every time she gets close to being finished, Coyote comes along and destroys her design. Each time, she starts again and each time she gets closer to finishing it. Some day she will finish it, and that will be the end of the world. So Coyote is also the spontaneous, creative force that keeps the world alive.

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