"Canadian artist Kelly Richardson (*1972) belongs to a new generation of artists working with digital technologies to create hyperreal, symbolically highly charged landscapes. Her series of digitally-born works 'Pillars of Dawn' imagines a desert landscape in which environmental conditions have crystallized the terrain. The series present a scenario in which we might have to look beyond our current planet for refuge and survival, and they raise myriad questions about how we arrived [at] such a moment of environmental crisis"--Publisher's website.