"In my paintings I honor the landscape as itself and as a metaphor. Mountains become places of ascension, inwardness and grace. Desert as indifference. Untamed and wild landscape, in all its apathy, elicits a primal pull to enter it, to be joined with it, to know it intimately. Seeking the solace of empty places, I create reflection and investigation of self, sublimity, and the divine. " 

–Danielle Winger