San Juan County painter Gilmore Scott has unique take on traditional Navajo artwork

Montezuma Creek • One third of Gilmore Scott’s kitchen table serves as his studio space, his tray of paints a patch of clutter in his otherwise immaculate home.Outside the window, an immense sky hangs over the treeless mesas of the northern Navajo Nation. But Scott is turned toward his canvas, where he is layering vivid colors into an intense, geometric pattern, which he says was inspired by a Diné (Navajo) rug weaving tradition known as Eye Dazzlers.“When people see that