Escalnte Color-scape #3 Acrylic Print

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I just returned from hiking in these beautiful slots canyon, having my breath taken away by their intense colors and shapes. They are systematically being dismantled and taken out of national monument status by the Trump administration. Anyone concerned for interested in these natural colored art shapes that took thousands of years to create needs to become involved in saving the Escalante and Bear Ears from oil exploration, coal mining, and other mineral extraction activities. Please help save the Escalante and Bear Ears by supporting environmental organizations and through contacting political representatives and senators about saving the Escalante and Bear Ears areas by reinstating their full National Monument status.

In the dimming light he smiles with memories of their steep march up to this perfect perch to share with friends while the sandstone burned red about them. This quote is from the poem Last Light by Doug Scrima. Terry Tempest Williams, in The Hour of Land: A Personal Topography of America's National Parks shared that her spiritual life is found inside the heart of the wild. Those words resonate with me. I have those feelings when I am on the trail. Those are times that I feel most free as an individual and inspired as an artist. I feel a real sense of joy unburdened by the pressures that seem to hold us back in our day to day routines. Certainly there are physical challenges, but I find that those challenges are what give meaning to the...