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Ingrid Oliphant

Ariel: A Tribute to Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women - Paintings

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Woman Owned

Recycled Materials

Made In USA

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DimensionsWeight
30.25H x 24.25W x 1.5D in
76.84H x 61.59W x 3.81D cm
4.54 kg
10 lb

This piece is is named after a missing and murdered Diné woman. I was introduced to her by a Navajo cop I'd worked with when he sent me a missing person's flyer in September 2017 and asked me, "What do you feel from this?" That simple question took me into the American desert, deep danger and the worst of humanity's behavior.

Ariel is a symbol of strength, the power of prayer, and hope for the future.

The poem here reads:

The sun called you daughter
long before you were first
touched by the dawn.

Trees bow before you more
deeply than they do the
wind.
You were made of the stars
and born in answer
to a prayer.
You belong.
Your gentle strength is forged
by the fire of the heart
And woven into the fabric
of the future.
Water will guide your power
and grace through the fear.
You're here on purpose
with purpose.

The whispers of angels
and eagles
will get knotted in your hair.
And your laughter will inspire
the wind.
Ah-wa-heh, old child.
Let beauty ease your way.
You are stronger and braver than you know.

Item Ariel: A Tribute to Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women
Created by Ingrid Oliphant
As seen in Creator's Studio, Telluride, CO
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Ingrid Oliphant
Meet the Creator
Wescover creator since 2023
Colors of Faith

I am a savant artist. The compulsion to paint appeared in the spring of 2022 as suddenly as the capacity to heal disease with touch in 2009. The sensitivities and perceptiveness that guide the work as a shaman bring the Language of Creation to viewers in a visible way. In the summer of 2022, God called my painting "faith in color." It took me two years before I realized that, to me, it's the "color of faith". When I paint I don't know how it's going to turn out, I don't even have to know the next step; I don't question my choices in color or texture or how the canvas and creation move me. I merely am and in the movement, deeply still and deeply peace-filled.

To many, these pieces are mystical, multi-sensory experiences; temperature changing, heart-opening, illness-curing paintings that imbue the viewer with peace and wonder. Though pieces are not created with a story in mind, sensitive viewers can hear and feel the stories of Ancients, the land and water. When I begin, I usually don't know what will unfold: abstract landscape, surrealist weaving of magic, or Missing and Murdered Indigeous Women speaking through the ground and ether.

Each piece evolves into its own rhythm and tone, responding to the energies within and around me, and similar to the way I experience synesthesia, emits its own sensory experience. Most pieces challenge the status quo of spiritual spaces and conceptions asking viewers to reevaluate limitations and the liminal space between the physical and invisible worlds. What often at first glance is two-dimensional becomes an experience akin to walking through a threshold, entering sanctuary as well as deep space: of the inner kind and that associated with the stars.