Roger Broer (Oglala Lakota) is an artist who paints directly and in modified versions of monotype, a printmaking technique, using oil paints instead of printer’s inks and a Plexiglas plate in place of the press, hand burnishing for greater control. As a matter of course, new ideas occur as I work. The monotype is fast, allowing me to capture different ideas or directions during the process. Generally, I do not sketch ideas as they come. Those would distract my interest and their energy be lost. What I hope to capture with the monotype is raw energy in the form of emotion, to show you how I feel, how my subject translates that state. These emotions are available to me culminating from a deep sense of spiritual awareness and tribal connectiveness.