View the large-scale photography by VC Torneden in Gallery II of the Paseo Arts and Creativity center for the month of June! See more of VC’s work here: vctorneden.com

“Shortly after relocating to Oklahoma City in 2014, I was told about the Wichita Mountains by a friend from Apache who knew my love of travel and the outdoors inspires my art and photography. From my first visit, the Wichitas became a source of absolute fascination. So different from the views I’m accustomed to growing up in the Delta South, the megalithic look of those otherworldly ridges entrances me every time I’m there. The way they rise abruptly from the floor of the ancient plain only to vanish again, dramatic against a sea of prairie grass and wide open, is mesmeric. Those mountains have a sacredness that cannot be described in words. Consequently, I began an ongoing landscape series endeavoring to capture some hint of that holiness, that ancient otherworldliness that is the Wichitas. It was in the attempt to show their magnificence that the idea was born to produce an exhibit of large format prints in an effort to immerse the audience in the landscape through my eyes, transforming the gallery space into a series of portal views and bringing the grandeur of it home to the gallery guest.” - VC Torneden