Above Koishaur Valley (A Hero of Our Time) 2010 paper, sanguine, oil pastel 415×299
Sanguine is the material that conveys substantiality as the basic essence of the subsurface rock. This "substantiality" is confronted by the silver thread of the river reproduced in lemon-yellow oil pastel. The river "noisily bursts forth from a black, gloom-filled gorge, its surface shimmering like the scaly back of a snake".
