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Home Art Artist Contact Press All images (c)copyright Monika Steinhoff		*Location* Tourists and collectors come to NM seeking the beauty of the landscape, clean air, rural tranquility or at least less urban sprawl (we’re getting close to the edge), starry night skies, and art ---and less consciously or totally unconsciously, danger. Why danger?Why seek it and why is it here? These questions give rise to my art. Our culture has replaced experiencing a vital connection to a living earth with constant entertainment and new levels of consumerism.The underside or compliment of this constant artificial stimulation is boredom; it’s other component is fear.We know we are out of touch with the earth and others living on it; we are greedy so we feel the need to defend ourselves and ‘our’ property from those we imagine must want to take it from us -limit our freedom to be so greedy, so we devote enormous resources to our defense.Confronting Truth makes one feel very alive. Hidden within the beautiful New Mexico landscape, only 30 miles from Santa Fe is the citadel of the deadliest most destructive and most secretive activity on earth:research, development and testing of the newest most deadly generation of the 21st century: our bombs. The fires came very close to making ourselves our worst enemy. My art brings this secret to the viewer. click here to continue . . .

Tourists and collectors come to NM seeking the beauty of the landscape, clean air, rural tranquility or at least less urban sprawl (we’re getting close to the edge), starry night skies, and art ---and less consciously or totally unconsciously, danger.

Why danger?Why seek it and why is it here? These questions give rise to my art. Our culture has replaced experiencing a vital connection to a living earth with constant entertainment and new levels of consumerism.The underside or compliment of this constant artificial stimulation is boredom; it’s other component is fear.We know we are out of touch with the earth and others living on it; we are greedy so we feel the need to defend ourselves and ‘our’ property from those we imagine must want to take it from us -limit our freedom to be so greedy, so we devote enormous resources to our defense.Confronting Truth makes one feel very alive. Hidden within the beautiful New Mexico landscape, only 30 miles from Santa Fe is the citadel of the deadliest most destructive and most secretive activity on earth:research, development and testing of the newest most deadly generation of the 21st century: our bombs. The fires came very close to making ourselves our worst enemy. My art brings this secret to the viewer.