Dead Earth

When I was a kid until I was 10 years old, I use to live in a house with 3 acres where we grew crops and raised farm animals on (chickens, goats, etc). My dad was raised a farmer, my Sanchez grandfather is listed as a cowboy on a census in Texas. So I think he wanted to go back to those simple ways when raising me. So he found some land about 2 hours from the city, built a house and grew some crops. But the place we bought was listed as a floodplain, which was why it was probably affordable to begin with. 

A lot of the soil was clay, but he made it work (my patents were gifted with a green thumb) and was able to grow corn and other crops. Summer would come and I have memories of the soil drying out and cracking as the temperatures would swelter up to 115-120 ° F. 

As a kid I would think that those cracks in the soil looked like great canyons and imagine smaller creatures and bugs would see them as such. 

So for this art break for Zombie Ranch I wanted to capture that feel I had as a kid.