The Mother's Lake, 1996

Oil on Canvas 104 x 80 cm, Private Collection, New York

The idea for this painting came from the washing of the Toono that I witnessed as a young boy of six. I remember seeing many women playing in the water in the Lake of Mother. To this day I can recall the blue water, and the golden earth as a background for the sporting female bodies. These images are deeply etched in my memory...