 Click on image to return to the Room 2 exhibition White Buffalo Woman Mixed Media: Metal Frame, Cheese Cloth, Matt Medium, Metal found objects. 51" x 11" x 11" by Janet Ruffin White Buffalo Woman The smell of tobacco smoke, laced with rose fills the air, petals drifting, red. White buffalo and her calf rest in a clearing with the herd under summer hot trees Attracted by the sounds; drums, rattles, voices, the buffalo move closer. White buffalo comes even closer, stands quietly, looking intently. Kai raises her hands to the sky, asks for forgiveness for the slaughter of all the buffalo. White buffalo raises her head and bellows to the heavens. Kai raises her hands to the sky, asks for forgiveness for the massacre of the earth tribes. White buffalo raises her head and bellows to the heavens. Red rose petals fill the sky, drift toward the earth, like blood. |
 An artist, poet, and arts educator, Janet Hull Ruffin enjoys exploring image, texture and story through the process of mixed media. She cuts, tears apart, paints over, and combines textures with her images until a new narrative is created. Ruffin worked at The Children’s Cancer Hospital, University of Texas, M. D. Anderson Cancer Center for over ten years as artist/facilitator. Also, she was part of the team that created “Street SmART,” a creative arts project for Harris Country Juvenile Probation in Houston, Texas. White Buffalo Woman is part of a series I have been working on entitled “Healing the Earth”. I have two grandchildren; one fourteen, the other eleven. They are learning, growing and looking forward to their lives. I am their grandmother and I keeping wondering how it is that my generation, the one before and the one after mine, have done nothing to stop the destruction of our earth. I recycle. I voted for the people I thought would tend to the earth. Beyond that I felt powerless. So now my grandchildren are faced with what appears to be a very difficult future. This is a beautiful planet. Money and greed won out. The thing about greed is that it destroys compassion. To save our planet we need to wake up to compassion. We need to recognize the creative energy that flows between all life and that we are vitally connected to all life.  Photo of me working in a studio in the Hill Country Arts Foundation in Kerrville, Texas |
More of her art can be seen on her website at www.janetruffinstudio.com
email Janet at create2710 @ att.net (remove the spaces)
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