At powwows, cowboy symposiums and Indian Markets, I’ve made many great friends who model for me. I travel throughout the West painting, photographing, and gathering research for future works. This painting was the result of a weekend watching dancers at a powwow competition. The young girl was a champion shawl dancer at age 14. Her feet hardly touched the earth, and at the end she is so enraptured with the experience that she seems lost in the dance.