Description
Anyone who has driven the roads around Oro Valley at dawn or dusk knows the feeling — a flicker of movement at the edge of the headlights, and then a white-tailed deer, or three, picking their way through the desert with the unhurried confidence of animals that have been using these routes far longer than the roads have existed. Catalina Crossing captures that quality of encounter.
A buck, doe, and fawn move through the Catalina foothills in the warm light of a desert afternoon. The buck has his head down, grazing with the relaxed attention of an animal that feels safe. The doe stands watchful beside him — not alarmed, just attentive, the way does are when there is a fawn nearby. The fawn looks out toward the sunlit ridges of Pusch Ridge with the particular curiosity of something still new to the world. Saguaros rise around them, and the rugged terrain of the Catalina foothills fills the background with the warm tones of a desert afternoon doing what it does best.
This is the Sonoran Desert as shared habitat — not wilderness set apart from human life, but the landscape that deer families and Oro Valley residents move through together, often without noticing each other. Catalina Crossing notices.
Available on canvas, fine art paper, and select metal and acrylic mountings. The warm, soft tones of the scene suit canvas and fine art paper particularly well, lending the piece a quiet, gallery-ready quality that fits the gentleness of the subject.
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