Georgia O'Keeffe's New Mexico
In which Moominmama visits Ghost Ranch in Abiquiu, where Georgia O'Keeffe created some of her most famous landscapes and bone paintings... Fun fact: Ghost Ranch, where Georgia O'Keeffe stayed as a guest and eventually made a home, was where infamous cattle rustlers called the Archuleta brothers set up shop in the late 1800s. They would steal other people's cattle and herd them far into the box canyons to keep them out of sight of the law. After the Archuleta brothers were gone, roaming cattle became a problem in the area, and government officials ordered local ranchers to collect their livestock or they'd be shot. They made good on the threat too. These are the bones that were so plentiful when O'Keeffe visited the ranch site, and she created striking paintings of the stark white shapes. It is actually hard to visit the landscape here and not be influenced by her way of seeing. That's partly the mark of art: that it influences how you see things. Moominmama f...