El Rito Nights Bandana

Paying homage to the town of the same name, "El Rito Nights" is is inspired by the desert landscape and cultural heritage of Northern New Mexico. Like much of Jess' work, this design paints a bold, rugged portrait of a quintessentially Western scene. In keeping with American western mythology, the scene blends beauty with danger, life with death, and natural order with human absurdity.

The wind-worn, sun-bleached color scheme highlights these contrasting ideas brilliantly. Together the elements create a larger, almost cinematic world within what might otherwise be innocuous artifacts. The scene belies Jess' reverence for the West in legend and reality.