Painted image of a barren, rocky landscape with a large rock formation at the bottom center of the image. Large part of the upper portion of the canvas is blue sky with white clouds.

"Stately clouds, mountains or icebergs usually occupy center stage in their narratives. Landscapes speak of upheaval, long forgotten seas and erosion. Of evolving vegetation and animal species. Of endless seasons of rain, snow and drought. The painting is the present, which is simply a consequence of the past. And in the most compelling of these works the present is dominated by monumental events which are helping to shape the future. After viewing one of these paintings it is impossible not to contemplate both mortality and the persistence of life." Ed Wong-Ligda

This painting is an imagining of European settlers crossing Death Valley.