Russell Crotty's *Chaparral in Gloaming Light* captures the rugged beauty of Southern California's native shrubland bathed in the soft, diffused luminescence of twilight. Rendered in ink and watercolor on paper and mounted on a fiberglass sphere, the work envelops the viewer in Crotty's intricate, obsessive mark-making as dense, scraggly vegetation stretches across the curved surface. The spherical format transforms the landscape into an immersive, almost planetary experience, reflecting the artist's longstanding interest in the intersection of nature, observation, and the cosmos.