Beauty Before and Beyond | Laveda D. Rockford

 

Beauty Before and Beyond
painting by Laveda D. Rockford

In honor of the Cherokee Nation, I would like to introduce you to my newest painting, Beauty Before and Beyond. 

This painting is a representation of the educational history of my Cherokee ancestry. The two Sequoyah trees are in honor of Sequoyah who started developing the Cherokee syllabary in 1809, and the first Cherokee newspaper, The Cherokee Phoenix, that was published in 1828.   

On the eastern side of the United States of America, the resilience of the Cherokee people could be seen through the Cherokee syllabary. Sequoyah was illiterate and uneducated according to the standards of the day. However, this brilliant man fashioned and formed the communication that was dearly needed. Though its future seemed to be doomed when they were forced to walk through fields, forests, and across the river into an area unknown to them called Oklahoma. Would they survive after the Trail of Tears?

Yes, the ninebark in my painting represents the Cherokee people in Oklahoma. The branches of this large and beautiful ninebark is a representation of the beginning origins of the new western Cherokee Nation brimming with bright ideas, without sacrificing its past and those still in the eastern mountains but bringing it into the present adding as much education as possible to its people to help the Cherokee people reach their goals.

It has been a struggle, but perseverance is the Cherokee state of mind. 

I hope that you like this painting. Beauty Before and Beyond comes from my heart for my Cherokee people and those that I, and we, lost on that fateful Trail of Tears.

God bless you all.

Love always,

Laveda D. Rockford





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