Busacca Gallery

During my first artist in residency at Hubbell Trading Post I drove to Canyon de Chelly National Park to explore the ruins of the Anasazi Ancients in the park and to also learn more about the history of the Navajo. When one enters the canyon one must be accompanied by a Navajo guide who explains the history and the culture of those who came previously and of the Navajo who still occupy the parklands. I took this image standing on the rim road above the canyon where they split forming Canyons de Chelly and del Muerto. Why did I choose this location? Because it shows the canyon split and I believe it conveys the overall essence of the landscape. My fine art resembles more of an artistic interpretation than what is referred to as straight imaging. Each image is printed to order by my commercial lab using the Lightjet 60 Laser printer on Fuji archival gloss or matte papers thus creating digital C prints. The prints are mounted and over matted using acid free museum quality boards in arctic white color. The frames are Nielen #11 frame anodic black and shipped with acrylic instead of glass. Each image is signed on the over mat board. This will be a limited edition in this size to 10. Most revealing in beauty and statement !

Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canyon_de_Chelly_National_Monument

Canyon de Chelly National Monument was established on April 1, 1931 as a unit of the National Park Service. It is located in northeastern Arizona within the boundaries of the Navajo Nation. It preserves ruins of the early indigenous tribes that lived in the area, including the Ancient Pueblo Peoples (also called Anasazi) and Navajo. The monument covers 83,840 acres and encompasses the floors and rims of the three major canyons: de Chelly, del Muerto, and Monument. These canyons were cut by streams with headwaters in the Chuska mountains just to the east of the monument. None of the land is federally owned.