Description
Lasting Impressions, scratchboard, 16″ x 20″, featuring chukars among the petroglyphs of the high desert of the sierra nevada was included in the 2025 Annual Exhibition of the International Society of Scratchboard Artists at the Page-Walker Arts & History Center in Cary, North Carolina.
The crater-like depressions, seen on the boulders, are petroglyhs estimated to date back 7,000 years. These veritable windows in time are a testament to the lives of artists whose primary medium was scratching into igneous rock. Although they may have attempted to record their personal and communal histories, without more context clues, most of their intended meanings are lost. But if we tread lightly, their artwork will remain for the next generations of humanity to appreciate. Perhaps one day, all of earth will return to the wild. Then, as shown here, chukars will perch atop the ancient artwork without appreciation of its value to history.
Inspiration for this scene came to the artist while visiting the Grimes Point Archeological Area in the Bureau of Land Management near Fallon, Nevada in 2023. The chukars were photographed by Lindsey in Utah in the spring of 2025.
Given that the artwork was made with sharpened sewing needles and tattoo needles under a magnifying lens, Lindsey recalls that it took about five hours per day for nine weeks in the spring of 2025 to complete Lasting Impressions. It is her signature piece to date.
