Mary Hunter Austin (September 9, 1868 – August 13, 1934) was an American writer. One of the early nature writers of the American Southwest, her classic The Land of Little Rain (1903) describes the fauna, flora and people – as well as evoking the mysticism and spirituality – of the region between the High Sierra and the Mojave Desert of southern California.
Gerardo Guerrero is an artist and designer born in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico and living in Southern California. His work is imbued with narratives that consider the physical experience of being in a specific place. Central to his practice is an affection for the subtle changes that manifest in a landscape at various temporal scales.