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(footsteps)

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I feel very blessed
that I\'m able to come here.

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I feel very blessed,
that\'s the word, yeah.

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(scraping)

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(drilling)

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(snapping)

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The earth and the
clay and the rocks

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speak to my soul,
and whatever it is,

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what the medium is, is
to make it come alive.

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(drilling)

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I love to
find life in things.

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(drilling)

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I do a lot of art
in the environment.

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For me, the landscape is, is
part of my identity, I guess,

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part of who I am.

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Art has always
been a way of life for me.

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That\'s what we did, we would
have a pencil, or paper,

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scissors, beads,
and we would create.

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It really seems
to be a draw for artists.

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I mean this is a unique
landscape down here that\'s

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not seen anywhere else.

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The isolation is good
just because I have a lot of

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time to work on my own, and
I, I don\'t mind being alone,

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that\'s fine with me.

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It\'s probably to your advantage
and you have access to all this

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landscape just right out there.

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I\'ve got all kinds of
resource material just outside

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my door here for any of
the prairie scenes I do.

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I\'ve always been attracted
to nature, I suppose,

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and I think that\'s
what has guided my art

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through all these years.

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I use this place
to inspire me to paint.

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It\'s a real special place for
me as an artist to come here

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and just be.

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I feel peace and
closeness to my ancestors.

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There\'s a timelessness about it,

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the writings that
are in the rocks,

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and our people that camped here.

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Out on the prairie, you
get a sense of everybody that\'s

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been there before, and that\'s
over the last 10-, 12,000 years.

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It\'s things like that
that make it sacred.

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Spiritual and sacred.

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I think it\'s the
vastness and it\'s still a

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natural prairie, which is pretty
hard to come by nowadays.

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I can get into that space where
it was the First Nations here

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and the bison here, and it\'s
just that feeling I get that

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this would have been the
same when they were here.

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(ambient nature sounds)

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The thing I like
about the work is

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it just devolves back
into the environment.

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Hopefully somebody might see it.

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If not, the earth is
bearing witness, maybe the,

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the deer will observe it.

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It might, you know,
no one might see it.

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(ambient nature sounds)

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Lately, I\'ve been
coming out with my

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pencils and drawing
right where I am.

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It frees you up.

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It just, you don\'t have to think
about it, you\'re not planning,

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you just sit down and draw
what\'s in front of you,

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and not every sketch turns
out, a lot of them don\'t,

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but it doesn\'t matter.

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When I come here, I feel like
I\'m part of the landscape,

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I\'m part of the grass, the
sage, and I feel very peaceful,

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very small.

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I think in our society there\'s a
need for people to connect with

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nature, to connect
with the landscape.

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When we spend time in nature, it
allows us to slow down and to

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just appreciate
what\'s around us.

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(ambient nature sounds)

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The stillness and the quietness

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of it can leave you to think
about your place in nature and

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your place in space.

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And it\'s probably a good thing
that people think about that

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stuff once in a while.

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Wouldn\'t trade
it for the world.

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