...landscape??

Ok, so now we're starting this fun, wacky collaboration project, but I don't really want to rely on it for the landscape, so I've finally settled on an idea after listening to everyone else's in class today. It seem like everyone (except one or two people) automatically oriented their landscape to go horizontally given the dimensions. I, having done the same thing initially, want to take a typical landscape and distort it to "think differently". 

I have always been fascinated with the desert scape, and the amount of life that is actually invisible to the casual observer. I want to create my own in Illustrator with a fair number of hidden quirks that you would have to look close to really see, on a small scale (8"x 8" x2 compositions), orient them vertically, and drag their bounding boxes to fit the given dimensions (44" tall). This will distort the image beyond recognition (hopefully), and create a sort of abstract art stemming from the real/concrete found in the real world, on our plane of existence even!

I hope to play off of the typical orientation of a landscape, while creating something that isn't easily recognizable as a landscape at all. I plan to make two of them to work as one composition, either two different images stretched the same way, or the same images stretched in different ways, idk yet :)