Grounded in figures from Santa Clara Pueblo oral tradition, the sculptures are named ‘Father,’ ‘Mother,’ ‘Little One,’ ‘Moon Woman’ and ‘Mountain Bird.’ They stand from seven and a half to sixteen feet high and are made entirely from natural materials: dirt, sand, straw, clay, stone, black locust wood, bamboo, grass and yam vines. Naranjo-Morse selected organic materials to enable the forms to take on a life of their own, allowing the elements themselves to affect the work over time. This way, the forms are “always becoming.” Three of the sculptures are clad with layers of a mud mixture - dirt, sand, water and straw combined by hand and foot - an organic building material often used to build homes and structures in the Southwest. The walls of each layered form are 6 to 8 inches deep and the surfaces are accented with a variety of colored natural clays. ‘Moon Woman,’ for example, features hand-molded clay spheres representing phases of the moon and ‘Little One’ is topped in fired clay pieces. Two sculptures - Mountain Bird and Father - are tipi-like in structure, featuring hand-woven bamboo reed mats and locally harvested wood branches used as tall supports. The Mother sculpture features a circular “window” through which the museum’s southern Cardinal Direction Marker stone is visible. Installation Team: Nora Naranjo Morse, Athena Swentzell Steen, Bill Steen, Benito Steen, Kalin Steen, Don Juan Morales, Juana Morales Escalante, Emiliano Lopez Morales. Landscape Architect: Rick Borkovertz