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California Abstract Landscape Aztec Symbols Contemporary Mixed Media Painting
Coast Ranges: Cojo Canyon
oil, varnish, burning, fiberglass resin on fsc certified sustainably harvested rock maple panel
48.5 x 29.5

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This piece is based on a view from the Coast Starlight Amtrack train, where it passes through Point Conception and the Hollister & Bixby Ranches, looking inland up one of the Canyons, or, arroyos , from one of the best right-hand point break surfing waves in California. It is a remote, wild, desolate and beautiful place, filled with rattlesnakes and coyote, cattle and sagebrush, and surfers on a pilgrimage. I tried to capture the mythic feeling of adventuring into wild or forbidden places in search of waves, art, enlightenment, the elixir...
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