The Art of David A. Johnson

Grandmother Moon
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The painting shows the sacred native
teaching place called Kinomaagewapkong.
The site is now the Provincial Park
known as Petroglyphs, north of
Stoney Lake in the Kawartha Lakes
region of Central Ontario.
At this sacred place, there are
images carved into a gleaming white rock.
Contained in the symbols on the rock are
the teachings of the Medicine Wheel and
the Spirit World.

You see a Spirit of the stone rising into
the sky and raising an Eagle Fan in prayer.
In this painting, Mr. Johnson has used the
magic of double imagery and negative space.
You will notice that the line very close to
the moon is not only the outline of the fan,
but also outlines the face of
Grandmother Moon.

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