{"product_id":"the-ghost-forest-original-watercolor-14-11","title":"The Ghost Forest — Original Watercolor, 14×11","description":"\u003cp\u003eQuake Lake was born from catastrophe. In 1959, a magnitude 7.4 earthquake just outside of West Yellowstone triggered a massive landslide that dammed the Madison River overnight, creating a lake where there had been none. Rising waters swallowed the forest whole.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhat remained are the ghost trees — their tops still visible near the shoreline, standing silent and submerged, preserved by the cold water and low-oxygen environment. Scientists believe the wood may one day fossilize, locked in time for millions of years.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eThe Ghost Forest\u003c\/em\u003e, I imagined that future already arrived. The trees are depicted not as dead wood, but as agatized and opalized stone — ancient, luminous, transformed. Jewel-toned facets of teal, violet, and gold catch a golden-hour sky. An osprey tends her nest atop one crystalline trunk while a cormorant perches below, unbothered by the strangeness of a forest turned to gem. The mountains behind glow in the same fractured light — as if the whole landscape is slowly becoming something eternal.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA forest frozen not in death, but in becoming.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOriginal watercolor painting\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e14 × 11 inches\u003cbr\u003eComes matted, unframed\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Shannon's Sasquatch Shop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67552158023984,"sku":null,"price":350.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0980\/1492\/1008\/files\/FullSizeRender_99013d07-c87c-4a4f-9aac-f415aea5a6d9.jpg?v=1787152195","url":"https:\/\/shannonssasquatchshop.com\/products\/the-ghost-forest-original-watercolor-14-11","provider":"Shannon's Sasquatch Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}