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LADY IN RED
22" x 36" double matted
and framed in gunmetal
cast paper sculpture edition of 100
10 artist proofs
A long time ago the sun had a human form that of a beautiful lady. She
traveled each day across the sky. Her daughter lived in the center of the sky and
each day the sun would stop to visit her. As time went by the sun lingered longer
each day, these prolonged visits caused drought and crops to die.
The Cherokee went to the little
men for their advice. They were told they must kill the sun.
The Cherokee asked the rattlesnake to kill the sun
for them. He coiled beside the door and when the daughter opened the door for her
mother, he struck. The brilliance of the sun had blinded him and he had struck the
daughter in error, and she died.
The sun veiled herself in clouds to mourn the
daughter and the rains caused flooding. The little men told the Cherokee that they
must go to the land of the dead and bring back the spirit of the daughter.
Seven of the bravest warriors armed with
Bois’darc sticks traveled to the land of the dead. Striking the spirit seven times
they put her in a large box to travel home. The spirit awoke " I am so
thirsty" she said, they ignored her. " I am so hungry she said" again
they ignored her. Suddenly she cried, "I can’t breath, I will surely die."
The Cherokee became frightened and
opened the box a tiny bit, the spirit flitted out and became the Red Bird. She
started calling out to her mother, who pushed back the clouds to see her daughter.
Her mother was pleased to see her daughter in her new red dress.
close-up
Lady in
Red
$385 + $35 shipping
     
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When the
Night Bird Sings
Hifler, a syndicated columnist and the author of A Cherokee Feast of Days
(Council Oak Dist., 1992), shares brief vignettes of her childhood in the
Cherokee country of Oklahoma. These tales are interspersed with bits of
inspirational wisdom on faith, prayer, and our relation to nature. The
reader gets tantalizing glimpses of Hifler's youth, her many relatives and
friends, and the countryside of rural Oklahoma. But the book is too short
and scattered to provide detailed description, ultimately descending to a
series of quick but thoughtful sketches, many of which began as newspaper
columns.
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