landscapes

Maybe there are too many landscape pieces out there, and each one is pretty much the same usually: the artist is impressed by the beauty and majesty of a scene and so they represent it in an art piece, often showing as little human disturbance as possible. I guess the idea is often the allure of the primitive in nature- going back to the roots of humanity, when humans supposedly lived in harmony with the world. For a long time I have tried to show the exact opposite: how humans have impacted and changed the earth, this is a major focus of mine within landscape archaeology as well. However, here is a small pen-ink landscape that pretty much is just inspired by the amazing landscape of the strange sandstone hoodoos and slot canyons surrounding Dixon, NM.