Dancing In the Light of Sister Moon

MIxed media on canvas. 61cm x 61cm. Private collection,The Triple Arch at Arches National Park provides the landscape for a dance by the light of Sister Moon. (American Indian reference.) The arches and the center boulder are strong and bold, and by all rights, very masculine in their musculature, but oddly seem very feminine, bathed in the softness of the strength of the moon’s feminine light. The painting is very textural. The rocks were built up through series of layers of color and cold wax to achieve a surface which looks and feels much like a sandstone or red rock. One can only grasp the enormity of this boulder when you realize that the plant growth is the size of full grown trees…