Dolona Roberts bright colored blankets wrap and protect a inner development and attract us like tender blooming. Similar, we see the wrappings of the serpent blooming in her paintings
Symbols are a kind of language to give us posts for an other realm of reality.
The snake is one of the oldest symbols painted and carved on walls of cliffs and caves within all cultures and times. The snake, serpent symbolizes fertility, new growth, maturity and healing power.
The dual nature of the snake/serpent can signal a merging of conscious and unconscious, bringing growth and health. The serpent or snake functions as a communicator, as a spiritual guide bringing good harvest and rain.
Many Amerindians venerated still today these serpent gods to maintain their culture, as in the Hopi Snake Dance.
To the shaman the serpent is a rain- bow, bringing light and color to earth. To Dolona Roberts the snake is a powerful participation of Myths. Her paintings show the serpent symbolized by curves, patterns of light and dark of glistening paints, as an infinite subject, limitless composition, a perpetua I mystery of Life
..Christa Nuzinger
