Connection to Ancestors Series

Armantrout's process on this painting and the one that followed included listening to the music from the Honor the Earth Tour.The painting, "Power Image No. 7-Connection to Ancestors", was the inspiration for Linda's exploration of rock art and the connections cultural, spiritual, historic, and prehistoric found in these global symbols. The making of marks over marks allows Armantrout to explore the push/pull of shallow space in her picture plane, and the play between abstract and representational. The complex ambiguities of timelessness or emptiness, of concise or deep are worthy of exploration in process and content. The image of the horse continues to be a cross-cultural icon. This exploration of ideas is refered to as the Connection to Ancestors Series.