I made this image within a small canyon at the intersection of two passageways. A dead tree sits at the spot where these passageways meet. Soaring over the tree is a spectacularly textured triangular rock wall, which I use to fill much of the frame. It was a cloudy day, which created a soft light that seemed to give the textured rock before us even more dimensionality and presence, as well as richly saturated color. The longer I studied this texture, the more I saw. There is an astounding head and shoulder profile of a bearded man emerging from the rock in the middle of the upper half of the image. Even the texture of the boulder in the lower right hand corner of the frame has a role to play here – it gives the large rock context in scale, and draws the eye towards the passageway that extends to the right just behind it.