Delectable Mountains: Greenstone

Mixed media: woven paper with paint, metallic foil, fabric, stitching, and poetic text.
40" x 32"
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. Greenstone is a type of green basalt found in Oregon.
$2800

Based in part on a poem by Kelly Gill Holland:

Upthrust earth
Baked long in mindfire
Shining
Where the sun strikes.