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Truman Lowe was a Ho-Chunk multimedia artist who emphasized knowledge of his cultural roots, environmental ethics, and natural materials and motifs in his artistic practice. With the advent of digital photography and advancement of computers, Lowe was curious to expand his aesthetic vision by exploring the early artistic possibilities of the new technology. For this artwork Lowe digitally manipulated a highly pixilated photograph of Indigenous beadwork, which features form and patterns created with small glass beads of various color. He then printed the image in black-and-white and cut it into strips, which he wrapped around willow sticks before gluing fragments of feathers to this new bark. In producing an electronically pixelated image of the beadwork pattern, Lowe correlated the “digital” nature of the art form with an emerging method of image-making in the computer age.