Author Jim Robbins (Last Refuge)
flew to Kansas at the behest of Smithsonian Magazine in 1994
to record the most comprehensive article to date on Herd's career
and artistic direction. The article was the first to introduce
the then upcoming New York work and to discuss in depth the
evolving relationship between Herd, the Native American community
and Haskell Indian Nations University.
"An invitation from Stant Herd to see
his artwork is no small offer. We drive a few miles to an airport
carved out of the farm fields of Lawrence, Kansas where we hire
a pilot and a plane. Soon we're over Herd's work, a large medicine
wheel."
"His
portraits, still lifes, and advertisements, fully visible
only from above, facinate audiences, even if they are seen
in photographs or on videotape."
Jim
Robbins for Smithsonian, July 1994
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