These are the pieces I've been working on in preparation for my trip to Radium Springs, NM. I've been looking at the topography of the areas I will be near. I also read Desert Quartet by Terry Tempest Williams, in which the author describes the eroticism and energy of the desert. The bottom piece began as a study of the Organ Mountains in Las Cruces and I presented it in critique as still in process. I was pleased to hear that in this piece my peers saw maps, home, and a female figure. We also discussed it's formal similarities to the Venus of Willendorf as well as its vaginal qualities.
The top piece is the rough shape of the Chihuahuan desert combined with images of organs and life which I have been playing with for a while. I'm interested in how this piece was interpreted as a map of large area as well as a view of microscopic organism.
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