Wanted to share more of my inspiration with you today!
Three years ago, I was fortunate enough to have been awarded an artist residency at Petrified Forest National Park – where I had the opportunity to live in the National Park itself and study deep time in the layers of strata revealed by erosion.
Three years ago, I was fortunate enough to have been awarded an artist residency at Petrified Forest National Park – where I had the opportunity to live in the National Park itself and study deep time in the layers of strata revealed by erosion.
Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona
American writer John McPhee coined the phrase deep time in his book Basin and Range in 1981 to describe the immensity of all history, the antiquity of the earth: stories figuratively told by the layers of rock laid down over many years. This concept of geologic time, however, was first recognized in the late 1700s by James Hutton, considered to be the father of geology.
Summer Solstice Petroglyph
During my time at Petrified Forest, I learned about petroglyphs and began bring these into my paintings, too.
Mountain lion petroglyph carved in stone
Mountain lion petroglyph in my painting
When I lived on the Big Island a year later, I continued studying petroglyphs, this time at Volcanoes National Park, and continue to integrate these into my paintings.
Mary
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