Saguaro Moon is an original work in 18k gold leaf on paper, 16 × 20 × 1 inches.
A figure in boots and shorts leans against a vehicle, viewed from behind, silhouetted against a large gold circle that fills the upper field with the particular texture of leaf on black. A saguaro cactus rises to the right inside that same circle, so desert, figure, and moon share one field of gold rather than occupying separate registers of space.
The figure faces away. What she sees , road, open desert, night , exists outside the frame, and the work gives that world to the gold circle instead: a moon that is also a window, a destination that is also a source of light. The posture is unhurried. The tension lives in the direction of attention, not in the stillness of the body.
One-of-a-kind original. 18k gold leaf on paper. 16 × 20 × 1 inches.
A desert night rendered in gold,
