View of Things to Come: The Frontier

I wanted to take a classic mountain landscape and simplify it down to fundamental shapes and suggestions without reference to defining details to heighten the focus on the unseen source of radiant light signaling the unknown frontier beyond.   A glass-like stream represents both a rift and a connection between Red Riding Hood's geometric plane and a surreal cathedral of mountainous formations one might expect to find in a fairytale.  This contrast intentionally plays upon classical depictions of Nature as an overly romanticized form of escapism.  

Red Riding Hood is outside her natural element.  She is depicted as a foreigner in a strange land, possibly on a quest to ride the river to an unknown place even more bizarre than the one we find her in here.  But the water is still.  Silent.  No suggestion of current or safe passage is given.  She simply waits...alone.