Mavasta Honyouti Hopi Abbey Road

Mavasta Honyouti is adept at combining Hopi cultural motifs with pop culture images. Here he has taken The Beatles’ Abbey Road album cover and infused it with four katsinam. They are left to right: a Koyemsi, Ho’e, Kwikwilyaqa, and Ho’e. There is a colorful Hopi cloud design in the background and Hopi style dwellings on left and right. The painting is made on four fused slats of cottonwood root. They are 3/4 of an inch thick. The painting is almost album sized at 11″ by 9 1/2.” Mavasta teaches middle school in Hotvela and his students like his cross-cultural commentaries. Mavasta has entitled the work, “Village Road.”