July 5, 1998
| If someone asks,"Where did you go on the Fourth of July weekend?", I want to answer "White Arch Mesa". For the while I spent drawing this picture, it truly seems I've been there. The arch is huge, 84 feet high and almost 40 feet wide. While drawing the picture, I could get a sense of the vast sun clad sandstone edifice. I sat crosslegged in the spot where the photographer originally sat, and put myself there. The only thing is, time sat still. Sunrise did not evolve into the heat of day. So shadows stayed long, and the opalescent hues in the distant horizon remained. |