Driving to Monument Valley

by Priscilla Burgers

Title

Driving to Monument Valley

Artist

Priscilla Burgers

Medium

Photograph - Photography / Digital Painting

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DRIVING TO MONUMENT VALLEY by PRISCILLA BURGERS

'Driving to Monument Valley' is a digital painting of the road to Monument Valley Tribal Park, made famous in movies. Monument Valley (Navajo: Tse Biiʼ Ndzisgaii, meaning valley of the rocks) is a region of the Colorado Plateau,.characterized by a cluster of vast sandstone buttes, the largest reaching 1,000 ft above the valley floor. It is located near Kayenta, Arizona on the Arizona-Utah state line near the Four Corners area. The valley lies within the range of the Navajo Nation Reservation.. Monument Valley has been featured in many forms of media since the 1930's. Director John Ford used the location for a number of his best-known Western films, and thus, in the words of critic Keith Phipps, "its five square miles have defined what decades of moviegoers think of when they imagine the American West." Monument Valley provides perhaps the most enduring images of the American West. The isolated red mesas and buttes, surrounded by empty, sandy desert, have been filmed and photographed countless times over the years for movies, advertisements and calendars. Because of this, the area may seem quite familiar, even on a first visit, but it is soon evident that the natural colors really are as bright and deep as those in all the pictures. The valley is not a valley in the conventional sense, but rather a wide flat, sometimes desolate landscape, interrupted by the crumbling formations rising hundreds of feet into the air, the last remnants of the sandstone layers that once covered the entire region.

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October 13th, 2017

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