Canyon Worship, Grand Canyon, Arizona


"Canyon Worship, Beside the Still Waters "
54” x 63 "
Completed 2009
Oil on panel with goldleaf
$12,500



Canyon Worship is about how boatmen take folks to special places in the Canyon, to worship. Based on medieval altar pieces, this free-standing 3-D piece addresses the way that even secular environmentalists have a primal need to worship something grand. We just do it in different ways.

The object of worship in the center panel is the North Canyon pool, with guides on the surrounding panels worshipping in all the various ways we do in the Canyon. The figures are all folks I have worked with, and include (from top, left to right) Drifter Smith, Sharon Hester, Jimbo Tichenor, Suzanne Jordan, Chris Brown, me, Martha Clark, Wesley Smith, and on the back, Becca Lawton and Moley Haymond.

Canyon Worship, Grand Canyon, Arizona
Front with wings folded in
Canyon Worship, Grand Canyon, Arizona
Back
Left front panel detail
Canyon Worship, Grand Canyon, Arizona
Right front panel detail
Canyon Worship, Grand Canyon, Arizona
Left back panel detail
Canyon Worship, Grand Canyon, Arizona
Right back panel detail
Canyon Worship, Grand Canyon, Arizona

Top front panel detail
Canyon Worship, Grand Canyon, Arizona