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The cliff dwellings of the west spur the imagination. Trying to fathom what it must have taken to build these stone walls in a high cliff face without the benefit of our modern tools is just the start.
I have no idea how many cliff dwellings there are out here. But I happen to live a stone’s throw (pun totally intended), from Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument.
The Mogollon people built their home here in the late 1200s and only used it for a couple of generations. Unfortunately we don’t really know a lot about them. And we probably never will. If only this walls could talk.
While I typically share straight-up photography in these little vignettes, this image is digital artwork I created from a two-shot panorama. Two shots probably doesn’t seem like a “panorama” in the most traditional sense but it was the only way I could get the composition I wanted. You know, without falling down the sheer cliff face a few inches to my left.
Cheers, friends!
PS—You can find prints and merch of this artwork on my art site.
Bluesky Art Show
This post is inspired by the Bluesky Art Show, a challenge to share artwork surrounding a weekly theme each Saturday.
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