This painting is of an audad looking out over the Rio Grande, east of Big Bend National Park.  Audads are sheep originally native to Africa who have been living in the US since the 1940s.  For me, this painting is an honoring of the land as well as an invitation into curiosity of what it means as a non-native to cultivate relationship with land.
 
I was lucky enough to spend two weeks boating this stretch of the RIo Grande in 2022.  It is wild beautiful country out there, and it was such a gift to get to share that land with the turtles and swallows, audads and raccoons, and so many other beings that call that land home.
 
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