"See the Sea"
Watercolor on paper
July 5, 2017
4" × 6"
SOLD
Painted "en plein air" at the top of the so-called Sleeping Lady Hills in Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks National Monument.
This painting has been on my mind lately; I had this feeling that someone would buy it soon and then last week, someone did! I made this on July 5, 2017, when I went out to explore an area of our national monument called the Sleeping Lady Hills. I climbed to the top and the view to the northwest reminded me of the ocean--the seabeds that were once here on this land as well as the Pacific Ocean that I'd recently visited. I felt like I could see them, just within grasp of the view I was looking at towards Las Uvas, another mountain range in our monument. I made this painting from my perch on top of the "hills" and it was a very happy moment for me. Pronghorn travel across these arid plains now but it still looks like the sea to me.
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📍This piece was made on and depicts land that holds ancestral & cultural importance for the following Indigenous peoples: Ysleta del Sur Pueblo, Tortugas Pueblo, Piro-Manso-Tiwa Tribe of San Juan de Guadalupe Pueblo, Comanche Tribe, Fort Sill Apache Tribe, Isleta Pueblo, Mescalero Apache Tribe, Navajo Nation, Tesuque Pueblo, White Mountain Apache Tribe, and Kiowa Tribe of Oklahoma. This is the unceded territory (aka stolen land) of the Indigenous peoples that today we call the Chiricahua Apache & Mescalero Apache, and the Piro-Manso-Tiwa peoples. This is a non-exhaustive list, and a brief reminder that we tread on stolen land.
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