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'Terlingua to Santa Elena Canyon' an original graphite 21" x 28" image size is part of a series still in progress. I took a sabbatical after my mother's passing that coincided with an art show at the old underground Museum of the Big Bend in Alpine,Texas at Sul Ross State University that I was included in. I took a photographic trip into Big Bend and then on down to Santa Elena Canyon into Mexico. I remember the feeling after the first climb into the mountains stopping and absorbing the vast southern view and imagining what the first explorers that viewed those gargantuan mounds of rock. It was magical the aerial perpective disappeared magically into the Mexican skies and I then traveled to the Rio Grande, looking up at the face of Santa Elena Canyon and in the high brush I grazed against a sign that couldn't be seen from the trail, it told me to get back in my car because of snipers holed up on the canyon. No problem! I learned later a father and daugter had been shot the week before from the canyon, robbed and burned. Grisly, beautiful terrain. ' What wisdom do I have for children here, your dollar is your only word, the wrath of it your only fear'- Edward Arlington Robinson
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