Ballet for Billy the Kid; Dancing Lawmen width-61.5 Two-tone post earrings with 12mm

Two-tone post earrings with 12mm and 16mm disks

The key to this photograph was to remember that tight framing leads the eye - otherwise the image would fall flat

New Mexico in 1977

Only five days later we were in South Africa and an enormous canvas from my shoot with ‘Santiago’ had already been erected in the veldt

3" x 4" center pendant

Ballet for Billy the Kid; Dancing Lawmen width-61.5 Two-tone post earrings with 12mmAcrylic on canvas, 60" x 60" This one came to me in a dream. Four lawmen, led by Pat Garrett, riding at midnight under the stars. Both the stars in the sky and the "star" badges on their vests are actual wooden stars that have been attached to the canvas and painted. The stars in the sky are intended to reinforce the idea that this is a theatrical production the story is being danced out on a stage with all the props; this is why that halo of light is