Delectable Mountains: Apricot Sky

Mixed media: woven paper with paint, metallic foil, silk, collage, and stitching.
27" x 22 "
One of a series. The shining Delectable Mountains, in John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress,
were the place where pilgrims rested before crossing the River of Death and
entering the Celestial City.
$2400

Based in part on a poem by Kelly Gill Holland:

Morning Raga

Grown large with love
the woman walks
through the clouds
with golden treetops
at her knees,
bends down to taste
the mountain's sweet
cold ice, then
swallows
the apricot sky.