Phoenix Arizona, Local Art.

For many years I have concentrated my energies on Native American portraiture.  The faces of Native America are expressions of culture, tradition, spirituality and history.  In the past couple of years, I have been carving/sculpting sandstone which I discovered to be a new and exciting media after having created a sandstone fountain with carvings at my home.  While working amidst a fog of sand dust and hidden behind goggles and a breathing mask, my mind wanders to the grandiose monolithic sandstone formations back home on the reservation.  Many of these stand as high as 10 to 20 stories and so many of my days were spent climbing to the tops and peering out over the land of sagebrush and cactus.  As any precocious child would do, I left my carved initials behind as proof of my visit. 

I have now gone beyond the “initial” steps and find so many new avenues to explore with each piece that I finish.  I cannot imagine a more perfect media in which to express my views of a people who have been as durable as the sifting sands back home – ever moving but fixed in their beliefs and lifeways.   In my small way I pay homage to those who have gone before and left their footprints upon the pathways of my personal roadways.  Please visit my sites:

http://media.azimaging.net/CPSS/  and http://media.azimaging.net/mcp/  http://santamariaartistsgroup.com/