One of the defining qualities that Humans have over any other species on this planet, is that we make art. From the beginning of early humans, from geometric patterns of cupulet petroglyphs left by Neanderthals at La Ferrassie and the animal cave paintings of Lascaux in France, to the kangaroo from Western Australia's Kimberley region. Humans have always made art. The reasons meanings behind the art are as numerous as there are surviving rock art sites.

Here in California, located through out the Central California Coastal Range, the pictrographs are exceptional in their color as well as creativity. I celebrate these early works of California Artists, in situ hidden caves and alcoves of California's original galleries. Here, when the art was created, it was not for ego, but to try to gain some guidance or control from a chaotic natural world.

This collection of images are the photographic documentation of the remnants works from some of California's original art practitioners. The locations of these sites are found throughout the mountains and canyons in the Central California Coastal Mountain Range and Los Padres National Forest. Partial funding for this project came from a James Irving Foundation Artist in Residency Grant, to continue working with the archeologist from Los Padres National Forest documenting these lost treasures of California's history.