The Sonoran desert of the US southwest and adjacent Mexico is a popular subject for artists. This is the "cyber" version. A vast landscape is presented to the eye, with distant bare mesas and sparse vegetation of several kinds. "Sparseness" is a theme here. It is spring. All of the desert plants are in bloom. The brushy sagey ones have tiny yellow blossoms. The saguaros have larger showier ones and are covered with spines (since spininess, after all, is the most vivid impression we have of them). The ocatillo-like plants have tiny blossoms along their stems. An early work; the artists's original name was "Spring Comes to the Cartoon Desert".

A flock of sparrow-like birds flutters through the foreground.

The desert plants get tinier and tinier toward the distant horizon, but are "resolved" in the image down to quite small sizes.

In one series there is a sunny fair-weather sky, and in the other there is an intense desert thunderstorm with lightning striking the mesas.

No two plants are alike. The saguaros have either a left branch, a right branch, both, or none. The branch point varies. No two brushy shrubs are quite the same. Each "ocatillo" is "grown" in the computer with a unique branching pattern.

Limited edition; each version of the picture will be printed no more than 10 times.

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