Artwork by Echo G Mitchell

Leather framing on a wood frame. It’s painted on a piece of 1/4″ plywood. The inspiration is based on a historic battle between the Ojibwe and the Lakota and Dakota- it was their last battle. The Ojibwe were more numerous and they drove the other tribes west into the Dakota. The casualties were buried at Mille Lacs. This is where my husband was buried- the painting is for him.

Wood frame. This was a frame with a painting that was a print with no glass. I painted over that and when I got done with it, I tried to come up with a title and Enigma was the only thing i could think of. Feel free to rename it!

I was inspired by a book idea which involved a woman who was doing research on a medical device for emergency medicine and would use the kelp to make 3 different sizes of surgical thread that dissolves in the body. It required the development and research of healthy kelp and put it through the scientific process that can go into emergency kits for the military and hospitals that have rural routes where emergency surgery can be done, and when they get to hospitals the thread can dissolve- it lasts just long enough to keep somebody alive.

The theme is based on a dream i had of souls floating down a river and over a dam. I decided to do in in an aboriginal style and all of the little clusters of dots represent things like famines or deaths. The clusters are the result of an event in which a lot of souls left.

The topic is based on my book for climate change. I is a very pessimistic view of human behavior according to the obvious signs of climate change. It is both dark and beautiful. The signs of a life is a pun, because there are vultures looking for signs of life. This is framed with leather.