Moonlight Belongs to Dreamers: Love Letters to Eureka, #4 Full Moon at the Crescent Hotel, Matted 11x14 Flat Print

#4 - Full Moon at the Crescent Hotel

A Love Letter to the Original Dreamers

I did not take this photograph. It was captured in the late 1800s—one of the first images of the newly completed Crescent Hotel. But I did breathe life back into it. I reimagined it with reverence, with gratitude, with awe for the miracle it already was.

This hotel should not exist here—not by reason, not by logic, not by 1800s logistics. And yet, it does. Built in a remote corner of the Ozarks with no clear way to get stone, timber, and iron to the mountaintop—it rose anyway. Someone dreamed big. Someone believed.

The full moon above is no accident. I exaggerated its presence to match the scale of the vision. This isn’t just a hotel—it’s a monument to will. To absurdity. To magic in action.

This image is an homage. A thank-you. A bow to those who came before and built something that whispers still to those of us who can hear it.

You don’t have to know how it will happen.

You just have to believe it can.

Moonlight Belongs to Dreamers: Love Letters to Eureka

This piece began as a real photo—taken during a moonlit walk through Eureka Springs. I refine the image in Photoshop, then collaborate with a drawing tool to translate its emotion into an oil painting style. The result is a visual poem—rooted in place, rich with feeling. Every print is finished by hand and paired with its story.
This is art as invocation—an invitation to remember the magic that is all around us.