Inside the Drum Cave

Spirited Life Paintings By Dawn Richerson

A river of life runs through a circular cavern, seemingly suspended in space and time. In the center, a green glow hovers as life emerges from the sun space deep in an ancient cavern. A river wound its way through the melting mountains to enter the lighted cave, then exited into a fiery soup of creation at play in an unformed sky. Yet somehow, through the destruction, a golden and aquamarine light poured down and through to fill the sacred space—the drum cave where her healing took place. A Spirited Life painting from the Dreams for a New World series by Virginia artist Dawn Richerson.