Kaila Erb
kerb_22@hotmail.com

I am a Caucasian female of British descent, so what could I possibly know about pictographs?  I don’t know their meanings or anything about how to make one, but I do know they are special.  

My dad took me out to a pictograph and seeing this ancient art form out in the wilderness was a magical experience.  This is when I realized that the art of pictographs is more than red figures on rock.  The art of pictographs is the entire experience of going to see them.  In my banner I wanted to show that you can not capture the beauty of a pictograph in a picture or a painting or even a banner.  The only way to see the beauty is to paddle out there and experience it. 

The poem in the sky is made of phrases I took from a short write up my dad had written about pictographs.  My dad had shown me this after I came up with my idea for my banner.  I thought it was neat because it said in words everything I was trying to show in the painting.

So the moral of this story is to paddle out and visit a pictograph and then you’ll understand my banner!