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AUTHOR DAVID VILLASENOR ENTERED THE UNITED STATES WHEN HE WAS SIXTEEN, AND IT WAS AT THIS TIME THAT HE SAW HIS FIRST SANDPAINTING BEING MADE BY A WISE OLD MEDICINE MAN ON THE NAVAJO RESERVATION FOR SACRED CEREMONIAL PURPOSES. HIS IMAGINATION FIRED, HE VOWED THEN THAT SOMEDAY HE WOULD FIND A MEANS OF PRESERVING THE BEAUTY AND MEANING OF THIS ANCIENT ART, WHICH IS ALWAYS DONE LOOSELY UPON THE GROUND AND THE SANDPAINTING DESTROYED WITHIN A TWELVE HOUR PERIOD.