Cerrillos Skies — where light takes flight

Dimensions: 96 × 48 inches

Made with turquoise powder, phosphorescent pigment, marble powder, gold leaf, iron oxide, tree bark, and polymer on canvas. This piece changes with the light, softly glowing after dark a meditation on flight, decay, and renewal. At dawn and dusk in Cerrillos, vultures circle above the cottonwoods and elms patient witnesses to the desert’s shifting light. In this piece, one glides through a glowing field of turquoise and red its wings tipped with gold, its flight suspended between day and night.