The world is charged with the grandeur of God! And my drawing professor said: "the world must be responded to." This is a rare departure from my typical because of its use of color and also how it does not portray something explicitly religious.
 
Regarding the first point, I love using ink, line, and value to really capture the detail of the world we live in, but even when our eyes start to fade, the world is still charged with radiating color to be experienced! Think of Money at age 80, nearly blind, but still painting with a profound vibrance and exuberance because of how he experienced the colors of reality!
 
Regarding the second point, anything that connects a person to God should be considered religious. Borrowing the vertical orientation of this landscape from Eastern painting, the piece is meant to evoke the way in which Beauty of the natural world lifts us up to the transcendent; tilting our eyes upward through the art piece and into the world above. We spend so much of our time on earth figuring out how to reduce the natural world to our own limited understanding, when it was always meant to shock us with the grandeur that comes from something transcendent, to coax a response out of us. After all, the world is charged with the grandeur of God, and the world must be responded to.
 
"What will you do with your one wild and precious life?"