2025
The Song of the Sonoran Desert
Hall presents the Sonoran Desert as a place governed by elemental powers: cactus, yucca, rock, sand, silence, stars, legends, and spirits. The landscape is not merely scenery; it holds memory and mystery.
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2024
The Giant Cactus of Arizona
Monroe imagines a giant Arizona cactus as an ancient sentinel that has silently witnessed stars, mountains, civilizations and geological time while refusing to reveal what it knows.
2024
Deserted
An empty Southwestern landscape is defined by absence: silent rivers, bare mesas, shadowed peaks, and wind carrying neither footsteps nor names.
2024
In the Arizona Desert
Wortley presents the Arizona desert through contrasts: fierce sunlight and purple shadow, silent mountains and calling mesas, harsh aridity and brilliantly blooming cactus and poppies.