Eyedazzlers!

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Dine—The People

HÓZHÓ
A Design for Living
Inspired by the historic Germantown weaving that once greeted visitors to the Chicago World’s Columbian Exposition in 1893, grandmother Rose Yazzie’s (left) contemporary Germantown Eyedazzler (below) transforms itself according to the viewer’s perspective. Up close, its busy checkerboard of seemingly random motifs and colors becomes a pattern of crisscrossing diagonals as one draws further back. Not until one draws still further back, does an even larger pattern of diamonds and triangles emerge, resolving itself into the overall design. Her award-winning masterworks embody Hozho, health, happiness. and the harmonious balance of all things that is the highest goal of artistic weaving, and of Navajo life itself.

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