Clouds and the Land series

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Abstract landscape with layered pastel colors—turquoise and pale blue textures above warm yellows, pinks, and oranges—suggesting sky, clouds, and distant mesas in a dreamlike, painterly composition.

Clouds and the Land 1

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Abstract, mirrored landscape with warm yellow and coral tones layered with soft cloud forms, intersected by a vertical turquoise shape and subtle linear textures, creating a symmetrical, dreamlike composition.

Clouds and the Land 2

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Abstract landscape with a turquoise sky, soft white clouds, and layered pastel tones transitioning from green and peach to blue and pink, with subtle linear textures suggesting distant mesas and atmospheric movement.

Clouds and the Land 3

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Abstract, mirrored sky composition with soft white clouds floating across bands of turquoise and blue, layered with pastel lavender textures and subtle linear marks creating a sense of movement and symmetry.

Clouds and the Land 4

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Abstract desert canyon scene with towering golden rock forms on either side framing a bright blue sky with soft clouds, rendered in saturated turquoise, yellow, and orange tones with painterly textures.

Clouds and the Land 5

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Abstract, symmetrical desert canyon scene with layered red and turquoise rock formations rising beneath a teal sky, mirrored vertically to create a surreal, monumental composition with soft clouds and painterly textures.

Clouds and the Land 6

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Abstract desert landscape with glowing orange mesas beneath a teal sky filled with layered clouds, featuring a luminous vertical plume of light and cloud at the center that creates a surreal, atmospheric effect.

Clouds and the Land 7

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Abstract canyon landscape with swirling white clouds filling a bright blue sky, framed by layered sandstone cliffs in soft pinks and reds, creating a dynamic, dreamlike sense of motion and scale.

Clouds and the Land 8

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Abstract desert sky with swirling white cloud forms against a vivid turquoise background, intersected by painterly hints of rock and earth tones, creating a fluid, dreamlike sense of motion and energy.

Clouds and the Land 9

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Abstract desert scene with a towering, blurred sandstone form rising from a green and ochre plain beneath a teal sky, featuring a bright white cloud that dominates the upper portion of the composition.

Clouds and the Land 10

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Earth and Sky came together and gave birth to the Clouds and the Land. Both were born simultaneously.

Though they greatly loved each other and could never be parted, each claimed to be older than the other. Their relationship has resulted in what we now call “weather”. Sometimes they chat happily until the subject of who came first arises. Then great tumults arise we call storms.

Most of the time we can surmise how their conversations will go at the start of each day…but not always. Then is when we get caught up in their “arguments” and “disagreeable spells”. It is often then we must run for cover.

Or so the story goes…

This series was inspired by a whimsical, delightful, uplifting afternoon wandering the areas west of Chinle, Arizona. The story-teller in my imagined I was part of the conversation between the land and clouds. There was a sense of timeless antiquity, a powerful sense of being present in the present, and being a part of a daily relationship between the two. I imagined how it would be similar conversations punctuated by times of disagreement and tumult. Yet it felt like I had for that afternoon become part of millions of years of conversation in words only they knew.