Three Sisters, The Museum of Contemporary Native Art, Santa Fe, NM, 2022
Acrylic
75 x 19 ft
Three Sisters is a large-scale mural completed for the rotating gallery at The Museum of Contemporary Native Art courtyard. It celebrates the Indigenous agricultural practice of growing the three companion crops. In early Spring, beans sprout and their roots enhance the surrounding soil with nitrogen. The corn sprouts utilize the nitrogen to grow tall. The cornstalks provide shade for squash sprouts as they prefer cool temperatures. The squash grows sprawling outward, and provides ground cover to prevent evaporation during Summer heat. Beans and squash also grow vines that climb up the corn stalk, reinforcing it structurally and providing support during intense wind and hail. Together, the crops grow in abundance and create a diverse ecosystem with which our ancestors thrived.
Acrylic
75 x 19 ft
Three Sisters is a large-scale mural completed for the rotating gallery at The Museum of Contemporary Native Art courtyard. It celebrates the Indigenous agricultural practice of growing the three companion crops. In early Spring, beans sprout and their roots enhance the surrounding soil with nitrogen. The corn sprouts utilize the nitrogen to grow tall. The cornstalks provide shade for squash sprouts as they prefer cool temperatures. The squash grows sprawling outward, and provides ground cover to prevent evaporation during Summer heat. Beans and squash also grow vines that climb up the corn stalk, reinforcing it structurally and providing support during intense wind and hail. Together, the crops grow in abundance and create a diverse ecosystem with which our ancestors thrived.
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