This is a detail of a painting I did of Lookout Mountain, in Spearfish, South Dakota.  This local landmark is symbolic of home to me. The painting is titled: Beneath the Surface.

To the west of this beautiful valley, headed to Wyoming, is an intriguing site.  It was discovered when Interstate 90 was being built.  It is an ancient buffalo jump, called The Vore Buffalo Jump.  Here, over many years, Native Americans utilized the natural crevice to stampede buffalo over a cliff.  They then shot them with bows and arrows and butchered them in the depression.  Over the years, layer upon layer of bones and arrowheads are found, and today discovered.  This painting’s full image shows a juxtaposed image of events which may have happened and evidence of that lurks  just beneath the surface.