About the work

This colorful landscape depicts "Cerro Pedernal" or "Flint Hill", a large desert mesa in Northern New Mexico. The colors especially are inspired by Georgia O'Keefe the American painter, who in turn was inspired greatly by this land surrounding her longtime home and studio, Ghost Ranch. The final image is a layered, digital composite of many exposures, each made to feature a different part of the place. Some photographs focus on small details like the spiky vegetation. Other photographs capture the vastness of the scene. The overall effect conveys a bit of the wonder I felt upon experiencing this place for the first time and the feeling of artistic kinship I felt towards O'Keeffe.