Rites of AnnealFrom the Artist Idraw on real life for my ideas. I think that to do art, there has to be something inside of you like a well, and to do itfor a long time, it should probably be a big well. For instance, I think about dying and how we should be nice to each other while we have the chance. Those things somehow show up on my work and it's easier for them to come out if I'm controlling the myth, rather than telling someone else's story. I mean, Snow White

These painterly stitches express the techniques of textile work

which depict the harassing treatment of men towards women

In her essay

and threatening

An instance of our desire to make things right

My artwork is as much about the process as it is about the image created

The motivation behind my work as an artist is the same universal impulse that has always driven artists—the need to communicate based on knowledge and truth

21 x 14 1/2 inches

is recognized by its long horns

21 1/4 x 29 inches

Sam Gilliam worked in many mediums

My works have been forged through the beauty and cultural richness of the border and also the very limitations of the region