Artist Aleksandra Patanchenko

original painting, oil on canvas

approx. 16” x 20”

 "Young moon over the desert"

At school I studied geography and astrology. I knew that in America the sky looked completely different than in Europe. But it’s one thing to know from textbooks and quite another thing to see it. The first evening in Phoenix amazed me. He raised his eyes to the sky. I saw the young Moon from a different side, I've never seen anything like this before. And at that moment I realized that I was standing on the other half of the globe.