Distant Thunder Monumental Size:74 x 55 x 45 Red and Pink Coral

Red and Pink Coral

Bronze 19” x 10” x 8”

Sterling silver inlaid with turquoise

and lapis in sterling silver

Lapis and Rosarita

Distant Thunder Monumental Size:74 x 55 x 45 Red and Pink CoralIn the desert, as in the mountains, the weather can be violently unpredictable. Storms can explode out of a serene blue sky in a matter of moments. For this reason, native people, who spent most of their time out of doors, were acutely attuned to the warning signs. Drawing on these facts of nature, I imagined a dramatic vignette of turn of the century Apache life. A young mother out gathering berries with her child has heard the drums of distant