Electric Desert

Electric Desert is a series of digital collages that capture fleeting moments in the Southwestern landscape. Moments at once deeply familiar and subtly surreal. Each piece invites the viewer into a sliver of time: the hush just after golden hour, when a monsoon cloud still glows with the sun’s last warm shimmer, or the brief, watchful pause of a bighorn ram before a storm.

Rooted in recognizable desert forms such as towering saguaros, arches, jagged cliffs, shifting skies, and wildlife, these works drift toward the dreamlike. Colors hum at impossible frequencies, shapes hold both harmony and tension, and every subject stands apart while remaining part of a larger whole. The cactus belongs to the land, the animal walks the earth, the clouds move above, each with its own identity, yet bound together by a shared pulse.

These compositions layer reality with suggestion, inviting the viewer to sense what’s slightly “off”: a cloud shaped like a mushroom plume, an atmosphere charged with unseen energy, a palette that vibrates just beyond nature’s own spectrum. These are landscapes that straddle the tangible and the esoteric, places where the physical and energetic realms touch.

Though created with digital tools, Electric Desert draws on the textures and processes of traditional printmaking, echoing block prints and etched lines. This blending of visual techniques is deliberate, melding the timeless and the contemporary, the grounded and the uncanny.

At its core, the series is about presence. Being in a moment and feeling the invisible layers beneath it. It speaks to the electric hum of existence itself, where every living and nonliving thing vibrates at its own frequency, distinct yet inseparable from the web of life and reality itself.