Harmonious Tension explores a well balanced setting in this painting where there is a tense game of cards at play. This painting portrays the bounty hunter Boba Fett playing a seriouscard game with a Navajo man. The style is deliberately in a Harrison Begay manner. I remember as a young kid always looking his artwork in books. I also owned a few books with his artwork in them, so I always had these close by. I was drawn to the subject matter, the elegance and simplistic unique style. With a personal touch I added coffee cups, coffee pot and the red fish blanket. These have all become motifs in several of my previous paintings. I’ve always been a big coffee drinker, and always remember seeing coffee cups and coffee cans in every Navajo dwelling on the Navajo rez. There would always be a pot of coffee brewing somewhere if you visited a home. The red fish blanket is a tell for another time.
