Title: The Waking Desert
Year Completed: 2022
Size: 18” x 24”
Technical: Oil on canvas

The Waking Desert art piece is a demonstration of an imagination where there exists a world in which the horizon is in front of the deserts. The rising sun appears small in front of the giant deserts which dominate the terrain. The sun splatters its warm light all around, displaying golden sand behind and rich red plain in front. Here, deserts appear as non-real since they defy the science we know. However, can this be an illusion? Imaginations and dreams are what make possibilities appear real, even if they might not be to us with open eyes. Could it be a mirage in the desert, where the sun is not real, but deserts are?