Mysterious-looking anthropomorphic figures with long tapering bodies, slitting eyes and horned heads can be found painted and pecked on rock panels throughout central Utah. Many are armless and appear to be bound in some sort of shroud. The search for the meaning of these images has eluded anthropologists, but there is speculation that they were probably made during a vision quest by prehistoric shamans objectifying their dreams or seeking the acquisition of power. Rock art at vision quest sites in general tends to be less conventional in its symbolism and does not conform to naturalistic signification.

Whereas anthropologists look for cultural clues in order to classify rock art images, Star, as an artist, focuses on personal clues that suggest to her the essence of the work, the spirit of its maker. After studying the photographs of these images, she has visited the actual sites, observing the figures in their original context, by daylight, moonlight and firelight. In this manner she feels a primal kind of contact can be made with the figures and with the ancient tribesmen who painted them that insinuates itself into her consciousness. What she came away impressed by, was the power in the hoist of the armless shoulders; the sense of spiritual forces struggling outward for a physical form.