True Story. This piece is a part of my Dust to Dust series, which is a call to arms to protect the land we love, Texas, and out soil, by all means possible. I am trying to do my part by using natural pigments.

Wendell Berry once wrote, “The soil is the great connector of lives, the source and destination of all. It is the healer and restorer and resurrector, by which disease passes into health, age into youth, death into life. Without proper care for it we can have no community, because without proper care for it we can have no life.” Decades later, these words hold even greater urgency. As conversations around land stewardship, sustainability, and ecological responsibility grow, so too must our understanding of the land as more than a resource—it is our home, our history, and our future.

This piece was created using Cochineal, Indigo, and Soda Ash. It is 22” x 30” on archival Fabriano watercolor paper with deckled edges. It looks amazing in a floater frame. I’ll include an image of a similar piece in my studio in a frame from West Elm so you can conjure an idea in your mind.