This piece was inspired by the magical imagery of Lake Powell located between Arizona and Utah. Its a reservoir that was created by flooding Glen Canyon. I think of this piece as a landscape that is deeply rooted in my agate and dreamscape series. It incorporates elements from both while heading in a new direction of a more defined landscape while still being pretty abstract.
The above piece as well as the one below my photos by a sunset I watched at the Grand Canyon. Looking back on the landscapes I encountered in Northern Arizona, the sunset from the secluded view at Shoshone Point really stood out. It was a mystical place … words and pictures can’t describe all that I saw and experienced there.
Looking back on that sunset, I wondered what a sunrise might look like among those jagged irregular, seemingly barren rock formations. I imagined a similar landscape on a cool morning, right before the first ray of sunshine hits the crisp sky. I chose to work in purple, a color I find intriguing in nature. It is not as common as the other colors and seems to be the result of a magical occurrence such as the sun breaking the horizon line or the earth waking up from winter, shooting up purple flowers in the spring.
All of these pieces were created in my Brooklyn studio. The one below is the last one I created prior to moving North to Vermont. I yearned to find myself amongst the rocky mountains I created. Little did I know that the following year, I would hike through a scene very much like the one I imagined in my dark, little studio in Brooklyn.
In the summer of 2010, I set out to ascent Mt. Katahdin which is the tallest and most unique mountain in Maine and arguably in all of the Northeast. The peak of the mountain is the end of the infamous Appalachian Trail that runs through the Eastern section of the United States. The climb is very steep, while nearing the top you feel as though you are in the clouds just like in my mosaic. If you look closely at the photo below, you can see tiny hikers on the very sharp ridge known as ‘Knife’s Edge’.
