My family and I have vacationed throughout the United States. The Native American artwork (featured today) was created by Navajo artists on the Reservation.
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| From My Personal Art Collection |
Sandpainting is the art of pouring colored sands and powdered pigments from minerals or crystals or pigments from other natural sources onto a surface to make a fixed or unfixed sand painting.
Because the symbols are sacred, the Navajo artist makes respectful changes to the symbols to the original sand painting (which is destroyed after the healing ceremony).
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| From My Personal Art Collection |
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| From My Personal Art Collection |
An Art of Healing: For the Navajo (Dine), the sand painting is a dynamic, living sacred entity that enables a transformation in the mental and physical state of the patient. The sand painting is considered toxic and destroyed because it has absorbed the illness or problem.
Navajo word for Sand Painting is
iikaah ("ee-EE-kah").
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| Wood Box a gift from a friend |
Thank you for stopping by today!
Connie
XOXO
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