Family Trip to Goblin Valley, Utah

I spent many summers of my youth hiking through the deserts southern Utah. Among the more memorable sites vested was Goblin Valley State Park.  The place is filled with many cliffs and rocks that had been eroded away through a mix of water and wind. The result is a bunch of mushroom shaped rocks that sit upon a landscape of muddy bedrock.

My sisters and I would try climbing on top of these formations, in order to see how high we could go. My father would stand at the ground and take pictures of us standing atop the mushroom rocks, or inside small crevices in the cliff wall. Among one of the oddest rock formations, I remember seeing one that held a strange resemblance to the alien in E.T.  Whenever we return to Goblin Valley, I always try to locate that same rock formation.

My intaglio print, “Family Trip to Goblin Valley, Utah” is based upon my childhood memories of hiking and climbing through that state part. 

"Family Trip to Goblin Valley, Utah"
intaglio, etching with aquatint and a la poupee, 6"x12"