Canyon Shrine Reflections

Paladin is nothing if not a light-bearer and a truth-bringer, an original thinker and a spiritual warrior who ushers in new light that allows all of us to see our world with new eyes. Matthew Fox

Paladin’s art portrays scenes of spirit gods and ancient myths translated through a soundless peep hole upon a human membrane sensitive to thought and projected through time.

Thomas Farley, Sr. - Wawatosa, Wisconsin

There was no place his talent could not go. 

He explored boldly places that awe and frighten us, his spirit blowing warmly and brightly into those strange corners of consciousness that we only suspect are there. 

His brilliance as an artist, his influence as an educator, his personal magnetism, his compassion as a friend—all this flowed through David from sources older than stones, sprung fresh from wells dug through history and more than history and ages before we began vainly to try to track the development of history, of humans.  

A painting was destined to follow, splayed with misty images from the pages of his mind, or sharp visions of the spirits that wandered through his universe. 

Or a dancing rabbit. 

He knew them all. 

Once, he put his hands on our heads and said, quietly,

"Being Indian is a state of mind."

We carry it as a blessing. 

David Paladin. 

Only one was ever made. 

He was a friend.  And he is carrying a drum.  And singing.

Lee Maynard, Novelist