Antelope Canyon

Medium: Oil on Canvas
Size: 4ft x 4ft
Creation Date: 2024
Collection: Pop Art

Antelope Canyon is a tribute to earth’s architecture — a rhythmic, curving abstraction inspired by the sandstone beauty of the American Southwest. Part of the Pop Art Collection, this 48 x 48 inch mixed media piece interprets nature’s forms with bold geometry, acid color, and layered tactility.

Painted in luminous oranges, shadowy violets, and sienna-toned curves, the composition spirals like a slow echo. There’s no single vanishing point — just movement. The suggestion of passage, erosion, reflection. I didn’t aim to recreate the canyon literally. I wanted to translate its emotional pull — the awe it stirs when stone seems to flow like water.

The surface is textured with carved grooves and layers of translucent paint, evoking sediment, age, and geological rhythm. Light dances across the painting as it would across canyon walls — catching, vanishing, returning.

This piece connects visually with the monumental abstraction of Georgia O’Keeffe, and even more so with James Turrell, who redefines how we experience light and depth. Like them, I wanted to explore nature not just as subject, but as sensation.

Antelope Canyon is about motion slowed down. About the body moving through space and the mind moving through memory. It’s about entering.