Looking Towards Hurricane Valley

by Steve Henderson

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$850

Dimensions

10.000 x 10.000 inches

Title

Looking Towards Hurricane Valley

Artist

Steve Henderson

Medium

Painting - Oil On Panel

Description

It’s an unexpected sight, the little footbridge, in the midst of a wild, majestic, wilderness landscape.

But while unexpected, the obviously human-created structure is not necessarily incongruous to its surroundings. Simple, rustic, understated, it blends into its environment by incorporating natural elements. And because the bridge exists, the nature loving hiker is able to cross the stream and continue walking on another human creation – the path that leads through the trees and fields of this 148 acres of land in Joseph, OR, reclaimed by the Nez Perce Tribe.

(The tribe graciously allows visitors, townspeople, and other non tribal members to walk through this, their ancestral land. It is an act of generosity that one rarely sees in this profit-obsessed world of ours.)

The bridge and path are examples of how we, as humans, can work with our environment, as opposed to the driving domination and plunder employed by the world of corporations and mega-businesses and rapacious financial institutions. Indeed, it is through cooperating sensitively and intelligently with nature that we create escapes from the corporate culture and its disdain for beauty, dignity, and life itself.

The artwork, Looking Towards Hurricane Valley, invites the viewer on a little walk. In the distance are the Wallowa Mountains of Oregon, USA. They rise up quickly, steeply, with little fuss or attention to foothills, and even in the summer retain a dusting of snow.

We don’t have to take a long hike. The trails wind gently through the landscape, each turn offering a different view of this quiet, sacred place. The people we meet here nod, smile, greet, and move on, because they, too, enjoy the silence and the beauty.

When we get to the footbridge, we stop in the middle and look down at the stream. We listen to the gentle current. And are a part of this world.

(A companion piece to Looking Towards Hurricane Valley is Chief Joseph Range, also on this site by Steve Henderson.)

Featured on 29 Fine Art America groups, including Pacific Northwest Artists.

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June 2nd, 2021

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