Byrdcliffe Art Colony has been around since 1902 and so is the cabin I am living in at the moment. The trees in the woods surrounding the cabin are leafing out, blue sky at the treetops this morning seen through the skylights on the north side of the front room where I write and paint. This residency is for May through September every year for five years and I hope to make the best of this time for writing my rivers book project with illustrations and paintings to accompany it. The drawing below is one of those I have been doing as illustration for an essay on nuclear weapons created in New Mexico’s Los Alamos in the Rio Grande watershed, delivered to Nagasaki, Japan in 1945 killing over 80,000 people in a blinding instant.
