Canyon Shadows

This work is from a photo I took on a September evening on the South Rim. The sun was starting to sink so fast, I knew I was going to lose this extraordinary light in a tiny minute. I had my painting backpack all loaded to walk back out to my car, so getting my good camera out would be a fail. I grabbed my old phone and did the best I could. I'm glad I tried.

The sun goes down with a bang in the Grand Canyon. Everything below starts to disappear from view from the top. Only certain chunks of rock forms flicker from within the deep shadows. If you look at the Canyon in the right way, you can always find the path of the Colorado even if you can't at all see the water. Even if you can't see the bottom of the canyon.

In the moment, I felt this strange sense of the ghosts of the rocks lifting up out of the dark. Gravity released, and these islands of light pushing up. It was wonderfully disorienting. I hope you can feel it, a little.

"Canyon Shadows", oil painting on canvas, 11"x14"  

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