I have been reading a book by Graham Hancock called Supernaturals: Meeting with the Ancient Teachers of Mankind. The first half of the book discusses prehistoric rock art from Europe and Africa and how much of the subject matter of the art is "therianthropes," figures that are part human and part animal. He also discusses how many of these early artists were using the contour, bulges, and cracks along the cave walls to makes eyes, or limbs, or outlines to their subjects to add a 3-D view and add depth to their work.

Although these pictographs here are thousands of years younger than those that are discussed in the book, I can see the similarities in the art. Did the original artist of this rock art purposefully use the desert varnish and erosion on the side of the Canyon Wall to further define the meaning of his work? It can be hard to tell. Only the original artist knows how big the original canvas was and it's perspective. It could be looking straight on with it, or from a distance, or the whole canyon itself, but maybe... its as my eyes through my lens saw it from below, using the texture of the canyon wall to create a path, possibly representing the afterlife, a shamanic vision, or an ancient story that was shared in their culture.

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