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[Long description: A dry, sandy path through a canyon. Cliff-dwellings line its walls, alive with smoke and light, while a set of three-toed tracks follow the trail at their base.]
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! She's here!

I was very kindly approached by TWWM staff to do banner artwork for Majanthi's greenhouse, back in June, which was a.) extremely my bullshit and b.) very humbling ;_; It was also the perfect excuse to paint some places I've wanted to for a long time.

This isn't a visitable place (at least, not so far as i'm aware) but it is based strongly on Sinagua petroglyphs and cliff-dwellings here in the central highlands of Arizona-- perhaps the most well known of which is, of course, Montezuma Castle.

While the Sinagua left these cliff-dwellings around 1425 AD, I had just read that Montezuma Castle was used by the Yavapai as a home as recently as the late 1500s , and probably continued to be inhabited for some time after that. There are lots of paintings of open and empty desert vistas with these sort of lifeless, people-less adobe ruins, so for this I wanted to create a little snapshot of something warm and alive... I was also very inspired by the town of Paquimé as it appears in the game Mulaka; it is the most inhabited area in the game, with a soundscape that layers the bustling din of commerce and life onto a very plucky and domestic themesong.

Anyway. Easy to conjure up images of ghosts haunting an empty desert-- they do tend to haunt places that were-- but I think that's a little myopic to the people who lived and worked and continue to live and work there.

Description

[Long description: A dry, sandy path through a canyon. Cliff-dwellings line its walls, alive with smoke and light, while a set of three-toed tracks follow the trail at their base.]
◆

! She's here!

I was very kindly approached by TWWM staff to do banner artwork for Majanthi's greenhouse, back in June, which was a.) extremely my bullshit and b.) very humbling ;_; It was also the perfect excuse to paint some places I've wanted to for a long time.

This isn't a visitable place (at least, not so far as i'm aware) but it is based strongly on Sinagua petroglyphs and cliff-dwellings here in the central highlands of Arizona-- perhaps the most well known of which is, of course, Montezuma Castle.

While the Sinagua left these cliff-dwellings around 1425 AD, I had just read that Montezuma Castle was used by the Yavapai as a home as recently as the late 1500s , and probably continued to be inhabited for some time after that. There are lots of paintings of open and empty desert vistas with these sort of lifeless, people-less adobe ruins, so for this I wanted to create a little snapshot of something warm and alive... I was also very inspired by the town of Paquimé as it appears in the game Mulaka; it is the most inhabited area in the game, with a soundscape that layers the bustling din of commerce and life onto a very plucky and domestic themesong.

Anyway. Easy to conjure up images of ghosts haunting an empty desert-- they do tend to haunt places that were-- but I think that's a little myopic to the people who lived and worked and continue to live and work there.