Ramona Sakiestewa has been celebrated for both her works on paper, as well as her woven tapestries. Her series of Chine collé monotypes continues to explore the vast cosmos. Using the multi-faceted process of printmaking, she combines earthbound and cosmic phenomena in layered images.
She writes, “Fewer than about twenty percent of Nebulae in the visible cosmos have a double lobed shape. The lobes, or wings, of the nebula consist of gases shed by one of two stars orbiting each other. The other star’s gravity pulls on these gases and contorts them into a thin, dense disc expending into space. Astronomers call the resulting shape a ‘butterfly nebula.’ Hopi people celebrated the butterfly as a pollinator and as a cosmic character in the pantheon of revered invokers of rain.”
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