Stone Writer (Giclée)

Stone Writer by Michael Ome Untiedt 30" x 40" 35" x 45" (framed) Framed Giclée on canvas Edition /50 From the Artist I can't escape thinking about this place, a remote canyon in southern Colorado, and a woman settler from the early days of the West. For fifty years, Magdalena Cordova, carved her name in the stone of these cliffs. I must assume she did so while retrieving water for the Cordova home; a brief respite in what was otherwise, I am sure, a very hard life. I have found seven of her cliff inscriptions, some of them large and ornate and requiring a lot of work to complete. This painting is about Magdalena Cordova. Even in her isolated primitive life, Magdalena found a way to stir the pot, break the clock, …with simple musings in stone. I sit on sun-warmed stone in the solitude of the Red Rock Country and think about Magdalena, her dreams and desires, her fears and tribulations. I think about how Magdalena “made her mark”, rose from the vast number of faces of humanity and left i