The Matriarch - ART CARD

Edition Date: August 2005 Artist: Roy Henry Vickers Medium: Art Card Art Card Size: 7" x 5.5" Story One evening in the spring of the year, I was enjoying a sunset on MacKenzie Beach in Tofino, B.C. I noticed a friend and his daughter drawing in the sand near the waters edge. As I enjoyed the scene with one of our beautiful sunsets, I noticed Grandma standing back to enjoy the same sight. I walked up and stood beside my friend, Rone, and she said, “I want to join in and yet I stay back to give my son time with his daughter.’ I was reminded of all the women, grandmothers, daughters, mothers, sisters and wives who seem to teach us men continually of observing details. It’s the women of the nations of the northwest who pass on the names and legends to their descendants. The majority of nurturing comes from the females in our lives. It seems that our ancestors acknowledge this truth by making the society a matriarchal one. The love of outstretched nurturing arms and the strength of childbearing all come from the teaching and mentoring of The Matriarch.