BIRTH MEMORIES DURING COVID – 2021

“Birth Memories & Star Medicine – Making Spirit During this Covid-19 Storm-Time”

Art practice as a lifeline during the ongoing covid global pandemic…Memories and Teachings… Dreamings solidified. “Anchored to Earth by Starlight.”(quote from ‘First Memory’ video, A. Lee 2021)

Funding by: Minnesota State Arts Board (MSAB) – Creative Support for Individuals FY21. Annette S. Lee.

“First Memory”

“First Memory”

A digital storytelling production created by Annette S. Lee that includes at least 15 original mixed-media paintings also done by Annette S. Lee during this covid time. Spring 2021.

Mixed Media Paintings:

*“Wichanpi Oyate – Star People”*, Mixed media on paper, ©Annette S. Lee, March 2020. All rights reserved.

*“Reaching for the Star Medicine During Covid Despair”*, Mixed Media Painting, ©Annette S. Lee, Dec. 2020

*“Birth Memory – Ocean Medicine. Carried in by Ancient Ones: Venus, Sun & Saturn, Moon & Mercury, Jupiter, and Mars”*, Mixed media painting, ©Annette S. Lee, 2021

*“Anchored to Earth by Starlight”*, Mixed media painting, ©Annette S. Lee, 2021

“Jupiter and Saturn Dance Together – Covid Winter Solstice”, Mixed media painting, ©Annette S. Lee, Dec. 21, 2021.

*“First Memory – Wichanpi Oyate – Leaving Star Relatives”*, Mixed media painting, ©Annette S. Lee, 2021

*“Miikinaak (Snapping Turtle), Making the Spirit Roadway”*, Media painting, ©Annette S. Lee, 2020

Original mixed media painting, ©Annette S. Lee, 2020

*“Remembering the Star Relatives During Covid”,* Mixed media painting, ©Annette S. Lee, 2021

“Children of the Four Relations Around the Heart of Everything that Is”

“Children of the Four Relations Around the Heart of Everything that Is”.

Collaboration by Annette S. Lee and James Spotted Thunder. July 2021. Lakota teaching of Paha Sapa (the Black Hills), The Heart of Everything that Is. (Ref. Charolette Black Elk, in Lakota Star Knowledge: Studies in Lakota Stellar Theology. , Ronald Goodman. Sinte Gleska University, 1992.)

Mixed Media Paintings:

Original mixed media painting, ©Annette S. Lee, 2021

Copyright © 2021. Original paintings. Annette S. Lee. All rights reserved. Any commercial use (including universities, grant writing, publications, for-profit venues, museums, cultural institutions, etc. requires prior written permission of the copyright owner. Email inquiries to: nativeskywatchers @gmail.com

Copyright © 2021. Videos. Native Skywatchers-Annette S. Lee-and James Spotted Thunder. All rights reserved. Any commercial use (including universities, grant writing, publications, for-profit venues, museums, cultural institutions, etc. requires prior written permission of the copyright owner. Email inquiries to: nativeskywatchers@gmail.com

Funded by Minnesota State Arts Board – Creative Support for Individual. Minnesota State Arts Board – Creative Support for Organizations – FY 21.