Entrance to Khazali Canyon
Wadi Rum, Jordan
Painting #18 - March 26, 2020
acrylic on canvas 24"W x 18"H
gallery wrapped/painted on edges
SOLD
In early January 2020, my husband and I along with his brother, wife and their adult children went to Israel and Jordan to celebrate our sister-in-law’s birthday. Jordan has stunning stark, vibrant scenery in its deserts and Wadi Rum (Valley of the Moon) in southern Jordan is simply spectacular with its red sandstone cliffs.
Khazali Canyon is at the base of Jebel Khazali, a peak in the center of the Wadi Rum Protected Area. The canyon is a narrow fissure of about 325’ in length. Its inner walls are covered in 25,000 ancient petroglyphs as well as 20,000 more recent
Thamudic, Nabatean and Islamic inscriptions carved over a period of 12,000 years beginning with the Neolithic period. You can easily access and see many of these up close by climbing onto and walking along the small ledges not far above the canyon floor. The path on the bottom right of the painting depicts the entrance to the canyon.