The Tellus Quartet consists of four large paintings which depict four distinctly different geographic locations. The first in the series, titled Ollantaytambo, depicts a rock quarry used by the Incas near Machu Picchu, Peru.
It was abandoned after the conquest by the Spanish around 1540. The second painting called Scartaris refers to an archeological site in Iceland buried by a volcanic eruption of Mt. Hekla around 1100 AD. The third painting, called Ta Prohm, refers to a temple abandoned around 1500 AD near Angor, Cambodia. The last in the series, called Tellus III, references the earth split into northern and southern hemispheres balanced one on top of the other. Oceans, rivers, seas, mountains, valleys, and deserts are all seen shifting about the planet’s surface in a constant state of flux.