prairie artforms
shamanic art
monika zephier
story
I'm a
artist statement
My work explores the relationship between Jungian archetypes and unwanted gifts.
With influences as diverse as Machiavelli and John Cage, new synergies are synthesised from both explicit and implicit discourse.
Ever since I was a pre-adolescent I have been fascinated by the ephemeral nature of the moment. What starts out as triumph soon becomes finessed into a dialectic of defeat, leaving only a sense of chaos and the unlikelihood of a new understanding.
As momentary derivatives become distorted through emergent and critical practice, the viewer is left with a hymn to the darkness of our existence.
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prairie artforms
I am an artist, passionate about the Prairie, and passionate about creating my art.
My inspiration is constantly ignited by the many things I see, feel and encounter out here, and what comes to me in dreams, visions, and imagination:
Majestic landscapes,
open horizons and skies,
the at times wild and scary storms, rolling thunder and powerful lightening,
ever changing cloud formations,
abundance of natural materials,
songs and laments of the coyotes, eagles, owls and crickets...
...and in a profound spiritual way, the exquisite beauty of all the astounding practical everyday items, artfully created by the ancient ones: The nomads of the Prairie - the Lakota people.
about me
I started creating my prairie artforms in 2003, when I and my husband Harley moved back from Cortez, Colorado, to Thunder Butte, South Dakota.
Thunder Butte is a community on the Cheyenne River Sioux Reservation, Ziebach Co. SD,
Thunder Butte is named after the distinctive geological feature close to our place, wakijan paha, one of the sacred sites of the Lakota people, known as the dwelling of the wakijan, the Thunder Beings.
I am at home here in the heart of the Prairie with my husband Harley, and our four-legged family - four dogs, three of them adopted strays. who decided to move in with us, two Appaloosa mares named Cahasha and Isota, and Wasu, our Prairie tiger.
I have been participating in numerous art shows. received some awards, and exhibited at the Dahl's Art Center in Rapid City.
My intuition is my guide for the exploration of new ideas.
I see my work as a form of materializing from the realms of the shamanic traditions, with the intention of personal adornment and empowerment amplifier.
I am open for the spark of your ideas, to bring an unique, very personal piece of work to you.
In the future, I wish to learn how to make silver and bronze jewelry, and pit fired pottery with micaceous clays.
September 1, 2013
Monika Zephier