Work on this painting began in 1979, and it was not completed until 2006.
The image predicates the tension between raw nature and the desire of mankind to dominate it.
I could even visualize a city in the beautiful badlands and canyons of the U.S. south-west.

This has already been tried in American prehistory, in the form of Anasazi Indian pueblos in the 'Four Corners' region of Colorado Plateau. This civilization ended with the environmental degradation and cannibalism. Now it might have begun again; apparently they are intending to construct (or have already constructed) a see - through walkway jutting out of the side of the Grand Canyon, Arizona, so tourists can view the abyss from a vertigo-inducing perspective. Thin end of a wedge, methinks.
Moreover I recalled how most great American cities have been traditionally blanketed by smog, and I remembered in the 1950s, how walking through the thick fog was like walking through a sea of milk.
David Soulsby

Are we not content to conquer the mountains, nature and their beauty but require a Travelodge or a Holiday Inn to be part of it - I wonder if this was part of the great Edmund Hillary's vision of the Himalayas when he conquered Everest.
Derek Lopez - Norman Cross Art Gallery.