Artist Winter Ross's Work Removed From SMU-in-Taos Show

THE TAOS NEWS
By Jim O'Donnell

"Enlightenment Lost" - Quilt art by Winter Ross

NEW MEXICO---Last week, one of the quilted artworks entered into a show being hosted by SMU-in-Taos at Fort Burgwin was taken down and returned to the show curator Melissa Larsen. “The most succinct way to explain it,” says the artist Winter Ross, “is to say that the piece was named ‘Enlightenment Lost’ because I was thinking how sex should be a sacred act but in the West we’ve lost that attitude." Ross is a practicing Buddhist. When asked why she thought people might have found the piece offensive, Ross stated, “Well, I don’t know exactly what went wrong. It hung in there for three weeks. [link]