Plein air painting is being fully in the moment. A cloud can cover a mountain and shadow a cactus. The sun may set a hillside on fire with color or bake the paint directly on the canvas.

Outdoors, nothing remains fixed. Light shifts, shadows move, and each painting becomes a record of a specific encounter with place and time. The intensity of being "out there" is both a loss of self and a deeper awareness of the present.

These works reflect a direct engagement with the Sonoran landscape—its light, atmosphere, and constant transformation.

Memory is never so vivid as what is held in paint.