5.31.2006

Spirits in the stone.





The artist of the Apache Mountain Spirit Dancer on Museum Hill, sculptor Craig Dan Goseyun, is softspoken and gentle, but does not find a 24,000-pound stone in the least bit daunting. A student of Allan Houser, the artist of this monumental piece and many others was kind enough recently to show us around his studio.

... brother to the fox, kin to eagles, kin to
bears. I run free through deep arroyos, on desert grasslands flush with
deer.
(Harvey A. Mendez, 2004, "I Am Apache")