A Thousand Little Fires - Original

The desert is running hot in this exuberant tangle of wild chamisa. Painted over a brilliant hot-pink ground, the landscape seems to glow from beneath its own skin, with flashes of electric color escaping through the smallest openings between strokes. Great scalloped masses of flowering shrubs climb toward the horizon, their yellow blossoms curling and multiplying in the heat. The entire surface is built from layers upon layers of fingerpainted oil, each impression retaining the pressure, direction, and peculiar shape of the artist’s touch. Some marks are dragged into long, ribboning grasses; others are pressed into fat, buttery petals that stand proudly off the canvas. Reds, violets, and incandescent oranges crowd the vegetation until the eye reaches a distant lavender hill, cooking beneath the relentless sun. There is something wonderfully feverish about this landscape, as though the earth has grown too lush, too colorful, too alive to contain itself.

Year Created: 2026