From "Path Breakers"
The Eiteljorg Fellowship for Native American Fine Art, 2003
Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art
Indianapolis, Indiana

Painting is a Sentualist's Labor
by Margaret Archuleta

"The move seemed inevitable, although I hadn’t put depictions of humans into my art for many years. In fact, their absence had seemed crucial to the significance of the work. It had been the uninhabitable landscape I sought in relation to the eternal." [Kay WalkingStick, Pg. 28]

"The replacing of the landscapes portion of her diptychs with images of herself becomes a personal and artistic journey of self-awareness for WalkingStick. No longer were the paintings just about land; they were about her own body. WalkingStick realized that she had been substituting her body with her landscapes. This was a life-affirming realization, as well as a liberating one." [Pg. 28]
 

Blame the Mountains III, 1998, oil/wood, oil, brass leaf/canvas, 32” x 64” Collection of the Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, PA Artwork and text © Kay WalkingStick 2012 Any use without written permission from Kay WalkingStick is strictly prohibited.