The Navajo homeland covers 26,000 square miles, occupying all of Northeastern Arizona and spilling over into Utah and New Mexico. Much of it looks like this -- high desert, buttes and mesas, and long roads lined with utility poles. I have built this vista around one of those poles. It brings to this scene a sense of scale and starkness, unfolding in a series of layers. An empty road offers a base layer, with the pole and its wires seemingly springing out of that road. The middleground layer extends all the way to the mesas on the horizon – a vast desert, devoid of human activity. A pale blue and gray sky fills the background layer, occupying two thirds of the image. This vista defines the nature of this place – arid, barren, alternately either very cold or very hot. This is home to the Navajo.