Original shield-shaped forms were painted both as solo works and in multi-unit compositions. The shield shape, enlarged, often featured landscape environments with representations of humans endeavoring to perpetuate themselves. Abstracted condors and partial skeletal condor wings appeared as metaphors of life.

Double Wedge with Ancients and Ram - details	Earth Shield -- Ascension of a Condor - details
Earth Shield -- Running Woman - details	Earth Shield -- Spirit Passage - details
Earth Shield -- Vanishing - details	Earth Shield -- Walking Man - details
Earth Shield -- with Bride - details	Earth Shield (for the Past, Present, Future) - details
Earth Shield with Condor and Ribbon River - details	Earth Shield with Condor and Standing Stones - details
Earth Shield with Eagle - details	Order of the Ribbon River Shields - details