

During
the autumn of 1996 I had an idea for a drawing. In the middle of
the Shenandoah Valley there is a Mountain called Massanutten. I
wanted my drawing to include Massanutten so one day I had my mom drive
me out to the part of the valley where the profile of Massanutten
looked the way I imagined it when I originally had the idea for the
drawing. I took a few photos of the mountain from slightly
different angles. Here is the photo I decided to use to draw
Massanutten. In the foreground of the drawing there is an empty
cemetery. The empty cemetery was fabricated by my imagination and
was not meant to resemble any existing cemetery. The layout of the
drawing and the fact that the cemetery is empty is for YOU to
think about. I began this drawing in November or December 1996 and
I finished it on February 14, 1997.
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