@washingtonpost feature on Eaton's artist-in-residence @jesselittlebird: "Indigenous rock carvings are among the inspirations for Jesse Raine Littlebird, an Albuquerque artist of Laguna and Kewa Pueblos heritage. Yet the three large paintings on display as “A Fragmented Exodus,” made while Littlebird was in residence in November at Eaton House, are contemporary in appearance and references. The artist uses oil stick to outline the ground, mountains and people in his multi-panel landscapes, and fills in the colors with hot-colored spray paint, demonstrating a stylistic affinity for both graphic novels and graffiti. Two pictures were completed when this writer visited, while the third was in progress. The finished works depict rugged, high-desert vistas, but where one is largely unpopulated, the other is packed with people, many in buffalo-like masks. The horde in that painting is headed toward the near-empty expanse of the first picture, the artist said, adding that the two landscapes are in dialogue. Another conversation the paintings illustrate is between eternal and modern. Sketched and scrawled in the open sky above the multitude are symbols, including ones derived from petroglyphs, and comments written by participants in a workshop Littlebird led. One phrase is from the artist himself: “the lithium age.” The devices that promise the future are powered by elements clawed from ancient land.