“Tuah Tah”
54x80 inches.
Oil on linen.
“I asked Lyle : “How was Taos called before the Spaniards came. How you guys called yourselves?”
Lyle answered : “ Tuah Tah. That's how we called the Pueblo people. ”
Then I asked : “And how did you call the area north of the Pueblo, the ocean of sage by the gorge, depicted on the painting?”
He answered: “Tuah Tah""
So I said : “ so everything is Tuah Tah?
And he responded ; “Yes. The people and the land. It's the same. This is our land where we always been and will always be. “Tuah Tah"
So I figured I called this painting “Tuah Tah” in honor of the Pueblos who inhabite this majestic land that we call Taos.”