Morning Orison

Winner of Best in Show Sedona Plein Air Festival 2023, as Judged by Tim Newton, Publisher of Western Art and Architecture.

Painted on location in Sedona over the course of 5 mornings, I biked to this cactus daily before sunrise. By the final morning the ritual was set, I'd hear the dog yell at the recycling plant and the subsequent coyote response as Sedona awoke, while the Prickly Pear and I communed.