Linda Lomahaftewa, Hisatsinom V

In Hisatsinom V, Linda Lomahaftewa combines abstraction with visual references to Indigenous rock art, landscape, and ancestral memory. The monotype layers geometric forms, spirals, plant imagery, and animal and human figures into a dreamlike composition that feels both ancient and contemporary. The human figure and spiral motifs evoke petroglyph imagery found throughout the Southwest, connecting the work to Hopi understandings of migration, story, and the presence of ancestors.

The title references the Hopi word Hisatsinom, meaning “ancestors,” and the composition suggests an interconnected world in which people, animals, plants, and spiritual symbols coexist. Lomahaftewa’s soft, translucent color palette and layered printmaking technique create a sense of movement and memory, as though images are emerging from or dissolving into time. The work reflects her distinctive style, which blends modernist abstraction with Indigenous visual language and cultural knowledge.