North America

Creative rationale

Over the Columbia Plateau in eastern Washington state, where high desert meets mountainous terrain, the atmospheric conditions reveal a scene of subtle tension and delicate moisture. The extremely low sea-level pressure with a steep gradient creates dramatic tilting flows of color that cascade diagonally across the canvas, while the high humidity of 82% demands multiple layers of translucent washes that pool and overlap like watercolor on wet paper. The gentle easterly wind guides salmon and teal stains to spread in soft northeastern drifts, and the cold temperature anomaly calls forth cool cerulean and lavender pools with sharp, crystalline edges that contrast against warmer ochre fields bleeding through the raw canvas.