Moonlit Coyote Painting
In the summer of 1992, I was a wilderness ranger in Sedona, AZ. I hiked red dirt trails every day — or more often, off them, exploring. All of us young rangers lived in an abandoned Frank Lloyd Wright ranch house above Oak Creek Canyon, below Cathedral Rock. We smoked hand-rolled cigarettes and drank beer on hot summer mights. In the evenings we dragged our mattresses out onto the porches and slept under the stars. We skinny-dipped in the creek where there was nobody. And every night, we fell asleep to coyotes howling.
This painting came from that summer. That deep blue sky, that rose moon, that feeling of being young and wild and completely alive in the desert. The coyote's coat is built from layers of handmade papers — botanicals, florals, fragments of pattern — outlined in gold, moving through the night quietly, staying out of sight.
It was the best summer of my youth. And somehow, it ended up here.
Status
Sold
Size:
20" x 20"
