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Channeling O'Keefe

Georgia O'Keefe famously liked to paint the canyons and deserts of the West. Her early 20th Century images of New Mexico are now considered national treasures. [caption id="attachment_5831" align="aligncenter" width="610" caption="Georgia O'Keefe with desert abstract paining (source: 1918 file photo)"][/caption] Who would have expected the Jet Propulsion Laboratory's (JPL) HiRise robot camera to be able to approximate the painters "eye" while orbiting Mars at the beginning of the 21st? This HiRise photograph of Martian dune fields does fine justice to the legacy of OKeefe's beautiful and sensuous canvases. [caption id="attachment_5811" align="aligncenter" width="1024" caption="Mars dune field by HiRise (photo credit: JPL/NASA)"][/caption] Channeling O'Keefe sounds like the tag-line for a future gallery exhibition. WHB
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