Here are my renderings, in miniature, of the Hubbles’ ten best legacy photographs. Even in this small format, their majesty calls out from the cosmos to what is best in our hearts and minds.
Canyon de Chelly Miniatures
We began our tour of Canyon de Chelly in Northeastern Arizona early in the morning accompanied by a Navaho tour guide. The terms of Bureau of Land Management and Office of Indian Affairs treaty with the Dineh peoples, gives them the total control of their continously occupied land within this federally owned National Park. The ongoing resentment of the Navaho over their subjugation and occupation, still simmers in the hearts of the people. Here is my take of the scenic wonders in which they live.
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- Caught in shadow, the remotely location reveals the inaccessibility of the homes of the ancients and there raison d’etre.
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- Located in the side of the red rock cliffs lining the canyon walls, these home of the ancients were relatively secure from human enemies. Climate change was not placated however and they were abandoned all over the suddenly over a forty year period perhaps seven hundred years ago.
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- Erosion has left many dramatic rock features in the canyon, which is it self carved down into the windblown relatively flat landscape of Northeastern Arizona, USA
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- There was enough year around accessible water in the canyon to support the life of a few ancient Navaho families who had been living there for almost two centuries.
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- This river of sand flowing through Tse’yi’ was still wet and colorful on the morning we entered the canyon with our Navaho guide.
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- Spider Rock was the legendary home of Grandmother Spider, who in the Navaho/Dineh peoples cosmology, gave birth to the world.
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- Many of the dwellings built by the ‘ancient ones’, the Anasazi, were located in the walls of cliffs difficult for friend or foe to access.
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Monument Valley Miniatures
This gallery contains 6 photos.
Monument Valley; As daunting to me as it was to our Native American forefathers, I have chosen this very small format as a way to highlight its vastness. Six canvases, 4″ x 4″, synthetic polymers on wooden panels, gallery wrapped. … Continue reading
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Celestials Series II
This series of 10″ x10″ framed paintings of the Hubbles legacy photographs, which by the way are all in the public domain and belong to all of humanity, came from my first delving into Nasa’s Hubble Galleries. So many spectacular views of the cosmos, I hardly knew where to start.
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- A cosmic scale of influence
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- It is all energy….
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- The drama of Jupiter’s Moon in ultra-violet light
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- It looks as romantic as it sounds…The Large Magelenic Cloud
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- Almost frightening in its intensity
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- Brilliantly colored energies from the constellations of outer space.
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- An image ‘painted’ by baby stars in the Orion Nebula in infrared, ultraviolet and natural light on a canvas of dust and gas. A composite photograph taken by both the Hubble and Spitzer telescopes.
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Caribbean Waters Series II
Some people take cruises to play, eat and gamble. I cruise to gaze at the sea. Ocean waters like the sky display the immensity of creation and fill me with awe while my concerns become insignificant. This series of paintings are renditions of just one bow wave among the uncountable number that passed before my eyes.
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