Prickly pear cacti with pale yellow-green paddles grow thick in the foreground, their dark spines casting sharp shadows across sun-bleached soil. Behind them stretches an expansive desert plain under a soft blue sky dotted with white clouds, with distant mountains hazy along the horizon. Bound with 52 pages of 70lb paper, lined or unlined, behind an anti-scuff matte cover with wraparound artwork, made to order. Notes and sketches kept behind an independent artist's work, not a plain composition cover.