Mimbres Burial Acrylic Print

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A drawing of a Mimbres burial. During the classic Mimbres period (about AD 1000 - 1150), the Mimbres people buried their dead beneath the floors of their homes. The deceased person may be placed in a sitting or prone position and a funerary bowl, decorated in classic Mimbres style, was placed on the person's head, or as in the case of an infant grave that was found, covering the entire body. The bowl usually had a hole punched near the center; scholar's today refer to this as the "kill hole". To me, it seems more like a "release hole", a place for the spirit of the dead to find its way from this life to the next. Others suggest the kill hole released the spirit of the bowl. Maybe both were released and the spirit of the bowl led the spirit of the deceased to the other side, to meet with ancestors that had already passed. However, such interpretations are speculative. The Mimbres left no written or oral stories for us to understand their practices or their art. But their burial practice...

Teresamarie Yawn creates art that is fantastical, mysterious, and surreal; as well, it can be precise, scientific, and logical. She covers a wide range of topics and captures events from the everyday to the Earth-shattering, and views them from micro- to macroscopic vantage points. As well as paintings and drawings, she creates harmonograph art using a harmonograph (a 19th century instrument that creates geometric designs using the power and periodicity of pendulums). With her art, she seeks to understand life, and to tell the story of our Universe and our Earth. She has no formal training in art, but has been painting and drawing since her earliest memories. She was born an artist. As an adult, she trained long and hard to become a...