Snow in Petra

Sketches, memories and photographs of a too brief but nonetheless compelling tour of Jordan provided the impetus for this work. We drove to Petra along the mountain spine of the country, in January 2007, with snow dashing about the car and drifts pushed up into formidable banks, where snow had not been in recent memory. The road to Petra was closed behind us as night fell. We made a carefully mad dash toward the town. The urge to celebrate this experience and to capture something of the haunting spiritual nature of the landscape proved irresistible.