Fine Art nominee

The red sandstone landscape image was taken with a Rolleiflex camera in Abiquiu, New Mexico, a few miles from Georgia O'Keefe's former property, Ghost Ranch. The other images in this composite were taken with a variety of cameras at a variety of times. The composition, the color pallet, and the cow skull, reference O'Keefe's work.

The sandstone landscapes in this part of New Mexico have a beauty all their own. I had driven past this particular area dozens of times, considering it for a long time before the idea of making this composite came to mind. The photo of the clouds was taken in downtown Santa Fe during a monsoon storm, and ravens are a common sight in the sky year-round.

Laurie McDonald is a writer, graphic designer, photographer, and a media artist. As a writer, her experience ranges from novels to screenplays to corporate/business writing. Using the pseudonym Eva Rome, she has written and published three books: Travel for STOICS; What It Means: Myth, Symbol, and Archetype in the Third Millennium, Vol. 1; and Location X: A Quest for Place. She has served as a screenplay consultant to the National Endowment for the Arts Media Grants Committee, as a contract screenplay and script writer/consultant, and as both a book editor and book cover designer. As a graphic designer and photographer, she has designed and built Web sites, brochures and business cards, and graphics for video.

She has received a National Endowment for the Arts Visual Artist Fellowship and four American Film Institute/NEA Fellowships. Her work has been exhibited internationally at venues including the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Pierre du Chardin Gallery (Paris), The Gallery of Modern Art (Rome), and at festivals including the American Film Institute’s Film/Video Festival, the Tokyo Video Festival, the Festival du Cinema in Montreal, and at Filmfest (Berlin, Budapest, Hong Kong, Melbourne, Moscow).