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Walking the Red Road
Art shared with hometown
Posted: October 08, 2001 - 10:50am EST
by: David Melmer / Indian Country Today
RAPID CITY, S.D. – Lakota artist Charles Rencountre took his artist’s skills down the long road from Rapid City to Santa Fe, N.M., then stayed in the American Indian art capital of the world.
Rencountre started making pipes, one of which is displayed at the Smithsonian. He then moved to sculpture, first small items and now a life-size American Indian woman in bronze.
Rencountre displayed the bronze titled “Walking the Red Road” in front of the Drum Store in downtown Rapid City. The sculpture was displayed for only a few hours because of city restrictions but drew the attention of many people.
From Rapid City, “Walking the Red Road “will move to Santa Fe to take up a place of prominence in front of the Frank Howell Gallery, where Rencountre works.
“I wanted to expose this piece in Rapid City. The work was inspired by a lady I met in Santa Fe. I had been reading Frank Fools Crow’s words.
“I had a dream and I though of sculpting the White Buffalo Calf Woman,” he said.
But, because the Buffalo Calf Woman had been done so much, he decided to call the piece Walking the Red Road, “because that is what she did.”
Rencountre taught himself to do this size of sculpture. He started with a smaller model, then did the math that made her life size.
“In Fools Crow’s prophecy he said when the White Buffalo Calf Woman returns, she can be any nationality. So when that lady came up to me, I thought I should listen. That made me think I should do this.
“I made her an Indian, but she could be done as any nationality.”
Rencountre created the piece from the “inside out.” He said every bone and muscle is there with the skin to cover her.
All the rest of Rencountre’s work is smaller and as close to ancient sculpting as possible. He said he wanted the young people to see what the original works of their ancestors may have looked like and to learn from that. All of the pieces tell a story, he said.
PS..I love this story.
Kay
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