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- Southwestern
Night Scene Painting
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- "Pueblo
Bonito Night"
- (from on-site
studies)
- 24" x
30"
- Oil on Panel
- No. 276
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- In this luminous Southwestern
Night Scene Painting, "Pueblo Bonito Night" an original
oil on panel, I was again re-visiting an old friend of a subject
in Chaco Canyon, NM. These ancient ruins arguably are the remains
of and ancient culture we call the "Anasazi" Somewhere
around 1,100 A.D. this was a flourishing Native American culture
which posessed high science in thier day as noted by the surrounding
land with roads running true North and South as well as light
clocks marking spring and winter soltice and much more. What
is arguably one the Anasazis' most incredible accomplishments
is the Pueblo Bonito located in the Chaco wash. Old man time
has had its say with this now ancient dwelling since the demise
of this eloquent American culture, but there is still enough
evidence left behind by them to stir the curious mind in to whirl-winds
of wonderment and hypothesize as to where did these people go
and what really went on out there in the middle of this ultra-arid
and visually stark landscape that feels like the end of the Earth
or the beginning of an incredible voyage into the great mystery
of life that crawls up ones spine when standing in front of this
crumbling pile of once masterly laid rock as the nocturnal winds
stir sounds of the owners-past in the dusty eddies delivering
grit on the wide-eyed-lids of dilated orbs in search of clues
of lives past in spirits still now in habitation of a presence
in the mysteries living in the shadowy recesses of mind available
for a visit here at night. In my re-visitation of this subject
I wanted open up the painting and let the viewer in a bit better
as to enjoy their own interpretation of this living mystery in
this magnificent relic of our great human American past
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- Pueplo Bonito is located
in Chaco Canyon, NM (bring your own water)
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