👽NEW PAINTING: “A Cache of Weapons and Gold” 18x24 Oil on Panel 2025
🌵“The Cactus Garden” Series 6/9
This series tells the story of Pinkney Dill (see my painting “The Resurrection Pod”), a master gardener leading a tidy and serene life, who one day discovers an extraordinary saguaro in his front yard--a saguaro that gives birth to a powerful resurrected extraterrestrial who forces Pinkney’s sedate life and tidy garden into chaos.
Story excerpt:
“…To his horror, the Cactus Person then enlisted Pinkney and his neighbors--who were in a trance-like state--to begin an excavation project to unearth the many buried caches of weapons and gold the entity claimed were hidden on Pinkney’s property. Soon, the yard resembled an archeological dig site as crates were exhumed from the soil. When the trance wore off, and he saw his desert sanctuary ruined, Pinkney was devastated. His neighbors promised to help him re-landscape, and the alien then gave everyone three gold bars, which helped ease Pinkney’s mood. It ate the remaining nineteen.”
