Birth of Thunder Mountain

Oil on Canvas

3 X 4'

2004

Sedona, Arizona is dotted with red mountains and spires stretching into the sky.  People have named many of the rock formations. Perhaps the most famous is Cathedral Rock - iconic and most photographed.  Old Grayback was renamed by Walt Disney when he lived here - christened "Thunder Mountain."  Since 1992 I have always lived close to or in view of Thunder Mountain and I consider it to be the main energy system here.  Millions of years ago, Sedona was under water and walking the land one can imagine a sniff of sea in the air or find a tiny seashell.  This painting is about the birth of Thunder Mountain as it happened through and within a sonic burst.