New Years Moonrise Qver Cojata Peru Bolivian Frontier Metal Print

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Moonrise over Cojata Peru

New Year’s Eve-Peru
Camping on Cojata village outskirts.
Moonrise over Andes-Too bright to sleep-
Bolivian Frontier is silent.
Burros graze in staked out circle.
I crawl out of blue tent lit up by
Quicksilver luminosity,
Breathing the thin, brittle air.
I must draw these surreal peaks sharp as crystals
Against incandescent sky.
My colors are all different in
Nocturnal brilliance.
Old men cacti in their wooly garments
Shimmer like snow fields across the altiplano.
It’s been a seven day trek
Over dizzying Inca highways
And ancient trails over rugged ridges-
So remote yet never really alone.
I include this night into my little
Book of treasured places
And intrepid moments
Which sometimes waxes
Into words-Sometimes poetic
Often prose-full.
Never enough-So I must paint the spectacles.
Now I can rest in sleeping bag slumber
As the moon-She carries...

ARTIST BIO Anastasia Ealy has been a New Mexico artist since 1984. She was raised with the love of the Rocky Mountain west, ranching, horses, farm animals, gardening and mountains. Many summer times were spent on the Nebraska family ranch. Her mother was a Creole from New Orleans, Louisiana, of original French and Portuguese,Spanish,Sephardi-Jew, early 1700's Colonial ancestry. This Spanish heritage, and having lived and painted in Calpe, Spain during the 1970's also gives Anastasia a strong affinity to Northern New Mexico.Colonial heritage, and love for it people and landscapes. The Hebrew part of Anastasia's heritage has contributed to a huge...