The first Afterimages collection emerged from Death Valley, where scale, silence, and geology begin to alter perception itself. Painted after long days working on site in Mosaic Canyon, Golden Canyon, Artist’s Palette, and the Mesquite Dunes, these abstractions carry traces of the landscape without attempting to describe it directly. Iron-stained cliffs, polished dolomite, shifting dunes, mineral color, erosion, pressure, and reflected heat dissolve into layered washes, unstable edges, and suspended forms. Rather than documenting the desert, the series explores what lingers after standing inside spaces so vast they quietly rearrange your sense of time, color, and attention.