Description
The Road to the Church of Sedona is an original work created in watercolor, ink, and pencil on semi-rough paper (2026, Minusio, Switzerland). The maximum outer dimensions, with mat included and without frame, are 40 × 30 cm. Work inspired by the Chapel of the Holy Cross in Sedona, Arizona (USA).
This black and white watercolor reworks the memory of a trip to the United States in 2017, transforming the famous Chapel of the Holy Cross in Sedona into a luminous point within a monumental rocky landscape. The scene is constructed as an invitation to movement: a long road opens in the foreground and leads the eye toward the typical rock formations of Arizona, where the vertical lines of the modern church, set into the rock, emerge decisively from the dark profile of the hill. The watercolor washes create a soft, slightly cloudy sky, while the ink and pencil precisely define the edges of the rocks, the vegetation along the sides of the road, and the essential architecture of the chapel, a project linked to the American modernism of the mid-twentieth century.
The black and white emphasizes the contrast between the horizontality of the desert landscape and the verticality of the church, which appears as a contemporary sign embedded in the geological time of the rocks. A small flock of birds crosses the sky, adding an accent of life to an otherwise silent and suspended composition, in which the warmth of the air and the distance to travel along the asphalt can be felt. The semi-rough paper allows the combination of watercolor transparencies with the more incisive marks of ink and pencil, conveying the materiality of the rocks and the smooth linearity of the road. The 40 × 30 cm format and panoramic layout make this work a landscape of personal memory and, at the same time, a tribute to the power of the desert and the architectural icon of Sedona, ideal for those who love the on-the-road imagery and American atmospheres reinterpreted in a graphic key.
