Description

Voice of Half Moon
by Kirby Sattler

The ultra-detailed art work of Kirby Sattler is fueled by an inherent interest in the Indigenous Peoples of the Earth.  His Native American Indian portraits evolve from the history, ceremony, mythology, and spirituality of the Plains Indian. Sattler examines this culture that had no hard line between the sacred and the mundane.

In the painting, “Voice of Half Moon” the subject wears a robe of the once ubiquitous buffalo, face paint made of earth clays, a hide shirt, feathers of the eagle, crow and owl, trade shells, a necklace of twisted horsehair, exhibiting examples of the inseparable relationship of the Native American and his natural world.