Digital Spirit Dancers: Inter-Tribal Holographic Installation is an Art Installation using holographic technology to create a moving video image. The work visually communicates the connections between the physical and spiritual world - a virtual representation of how ceremony and dance are used to connect to the spirit world.

The dancers in the installation are dancing in their traditional regalia, they dance and eventually the image begins to become abstract and this is the spirit, the connection that is created while in traditional dance.

A Digital Pow-Wow brought to the PASEO, where many Native American tribes are represented in their regalia.

About the artist: 

I explore new directions in Native American Art and Fashion, and utilize classical methods to develop a new contemporary vision of Native Art & Fashion. I am a Veteran and Native American from the Osage Nation.

I strive to create new artwork that continues to the tradition of Contemporary Native Art, and pushes the boundaries of varying mediums, such as painting, holographic sculpture, poetry, and Fashion Design. I paint, I sculpt, I write, I design, I try to find the best platform to express and convey a thought and emotion.

As a veteran with PTSD, I had to find myself again as an artist when I came back from overseas. I spent over 12 years in war zones, and before I deployed, I had studied art at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Holland and IAIA, in Santa Fe, N.M. As the apprentice of Earl Biss, my adopted father, I was able to delve even further into classical art. Upon return to the States, I started my studio again with the hopes to express the trauma of war, and find a platform to continually express myself, externalize the trauma, and eventually, hopefully help others.

As a Fashion Designer, I have always wanted to explore this platform. For me, clothes can empower a person to feel better about themselves. Fashion Design can be a symbol of empowerment, or it can be utilitarian in use, and it can bring awareness to vital issues in Indian Country.

For my daily work, my goal was to work for Native Communities. I earned my Masters Degree in Emergency Management and have been able to work with tribes on capability building and community resilience capabilities development.