Hummingbird Healing Room

A room people are sent to when they are not well, given a wall that does not look like a hospital.

Painted in thirty days. Medicine wheel, heron, salmon, coyote, a figure in the trees: the wall of the healing room at Riverview, eight by nineteen in the commission record, seven by twenty on the wall itself.

The floor holds a medicine-wheel carpet. The wainscot is hospital maple. Above that, the country she paints for people who have been asked to sit still.