A Hearth to Rest Beside (Fort Rock) - giclee print.

A fine art gicleé print on thick cotton rag paper. Half inch border on all sides, edges hand deckled. 

I have spent enough time on this land to know it is far beyond me. I guess all land feels that way, all those wide open places, left largely alone. This one, however, is the home to a precious sign of life, sandals woven from sage brush and sinew. Ten thousand years old, found beside a hearth in the heart of the Oregon desert, a home and a place of resource. What was it like to live then, how precious the work of hands and time? What dangers kept the body restless at night, what visions kept the soul pushing on? And to sit, a pair of sagebrush shoes, beside a cold hearth in a cave for 10,000 years, as the sun sets and the moon rises and the coyotes rustle around. These thoughts are a plumb line to my work.

So when I come here, as I often do, my spirit trembles and I listen rather than talk. Where sage rises above your head, and the rabbit brush grows full. The sky stretches out far and deep, the earth feels closer to then than to now. Secrets and memories not fit for words sit in the crevice of rock and the evening shadow casts a blanket on all that rests there.

And the radio waves that reach those long lonesome roads usually slap.

Signed,

Raina. 

professionally scanned image of original oil painting. 

printed and packaged in Bend, Oregon. Signed and Titled by hand.

please allow two weeks for printing, processing, and shipping.

due to the deckling of the edge, size varies by a half inch to an inch on the shorter length of the print.