Impending Poster

As with all my digital photography abstracts, this one began as a phenomenon in nature. It came out of a collection of sunset/twillight skyscapes from March 23, 2019 in the Sonoran Desert of Arizona. As with the most interesting skyscapes in my collections, it had a lot of contrails. The top clouds reflected a beautiful peachy tone colorwise but the bottom clouds looked too dark and muddy for my tastes. So I reversed it choosing a marine color palette instead and played around with it. I could never totally eliminate the darker turbulence in the lower half, but that’s okay. To me, it looks like ship on stormy seas in a precarious situation. I titled it “Impending” though because I didn’t want to condemn it to a predetermined outcome like a shipwreck. In life we are given choices. At every moment it’s up to us to do the best with what we have. Does the captain regain control of the ship? Does some supernatural force like a God take the wheel? Is it rescued by alien...

Judy Kennedy (a visionary wayward muse) is a nature mystic and disabled visual media artist specializing in the Arizona Sonoran Desert. The Sonoran Desert is the United States' most ecologically diverse desert - especially in the state of Arizona. With an abounding love for her home, Judy's artwork and videos mostly feature wildlife in its natural setting with accompanying landscapes and skyscapes as varied and unique as her stylistic expressions. She serves this inimitable beauty and hopes that her art inspires others in their own conservation efforts. Judy is also a versatile writer of creative nonfiction and a composer of music which can be heard in many of her videos. Her YouTube channel alone has well over 1100 subscribers. ...