Rainie Tsosie

Rainie Tsosie is a digital artist who enjoys telling her emotions and stories or drawing out her ideas. She was born in Phoenix, Arizona. She is in the Navajo Nation. Rainie tends to focus her art on concept/character design art for storytelling purposes. In the future, she hopes to gain some knowledge of her own culture due to growing up outside of the reservation. She wants to start sharing her ideas and visuals of her own beliefs she lives by.

I wanted to make this piece in a way for the audience to see that the female in the photo is someone who is protecting their freedom. The chains and darkness around the exterior of the angel wings are the dark thoughts that tend to run through the mind of a soul that feels trapped in a place where they feel like they can’t escape. The wings are what’s protecting the heart, which represents the healing and growth the female has earned during her independence away from home.