"AS THE COLOSSEUM TURNS,"
ARLES
"AUXERRE AWAITS THE TOURISTS
ITS HAVING FOR LUNCH,
BURGUNDY
"A TINKLE OF PERPETUALLY BLESSED WATER,”
BARGEMAN'S SQUARE," AUXERRE, BURGUNDY
Wednesday, January 28, 2015
Friday, January 16, 2015
Emery County, Utah, Views into a Menagerie of an Other Worldly Landscapes. A gallery in Progress (2 images)
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"A CATALOGUE OF EARTH AGES
BEFORE WORDS HAD MEANING"
"A PORTENT OF FAST WATER
IN A LAND OF BARREN SHADOWS"
SAN RAPHAEL SWELL
IN A LAND OF BARREN SHADOWS"
SAN RAPHAEL SWELL
Wednesday, January 7, 2015
Factory Butte, The Great Gray Wizard of Mancos Shale Erosion, Wayne County, Utah (A gallery in Progress 7 images)
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The rest of these photographs are from subsequent flights over the butte and it's pediment as I was substantiating my concept thesis. I can never look at desert again without wondering what treasures I am missing.
"OF MEANDERS AND MACOS SHALE,"
In May of 1987 I began three month road trip in my VW camper van to do the '111th Meridian Project.' This involved photographing the corridor of land between the 110th and 112th Meridian as it crosses the US from the Canadian to the Mexican border, about 1250 miles long and 100 miles wide. I created the 111th Meridian Project to visually substantiate a very large conceptual art work which I had titled "A Gathering of Horizons." To accomplish this I would do surface and aerial photography to generate credibility for my art concept that The Planet Earth is a work of art.
The project took 5 years and to complete and left me with images and an experience of this world that changed my life forever. This blog post is about just one small facet of that life changing experience.
Usually most of us just want to get through deserts, right? It's just a bunch of dirt, sand, mud, rocks, and emptiness that seems to go on forever. Once in a while you can just get a glimpse of the rare beauty it holds when a butte or a uplift raises up the land like a Moroccan carpet merchant. But, unfortunately, driving in a car, riding motorcycle, a bike or even walking you are limited by your height and your imagination as to what you can actually know about space you are moving through.
What could you learn if you could see it like a bird? For me Factory Butte in Wayne County, Utah was the Moroccan carpet merchant who had been hocking his wares since I first wandered through this mystical part of the west. Even when I drove out on the long mud road toward the mountain, this detail was what I could see of the carpet at land level.
The project took 5 years and to complete and left me with images and an experience of this world that changed my life forever. This blog post is about just one small facet of that life changing experience.
Usually most of us just want to get through deserts, right? It's just a bunch of dirt, sand, mud, rocks, and emptiness that seems to go on forever. Once in a while you can just get a glimpse of the rare beauty it holds when a butte or a uplift raises up the land like a Moroccan carpet merchant. But, unfortunately, driving in a car, riding motorcycle, a bike or even walking you are limited by your height and your imagination as to what you can actually know about space you are moving through.
What could you learn if you could see it like a bird? For me Factory Butte in Wayne County, Utah was the Moroccan carpet merchant who had been hocking his wares since I first wandered through this mystical part of the west. Even when I drove out on the long mud road toward the mountain, this detail was what I could see of the carpet at land level.
"FACTORY BROADSIDE,"
The rest of these photographs are from subsequent flights over the butte and it's pediment as I was substantiating my concept thesis. I can never look at desert again without wondering what treasures I am missing.
What a difference even a 1000 ft makes.
"FULL FRONTAL FACTORY BUTTE"
"OF MEANDERS AND MACOS SHALE,"
FACTORY BUTTE PEDIMENT
"THE MANCOS SHALE TRANE FROM FACTORY BUTTE I"
FACTORY BUTTE PEDIMENT
"THE MANCOS SHALE TRANE FROM FACTORY BUTTE II"
FACTORY BUTTE PEDIMENT
"OF MEANDERS AND MANCOS MUD I"
FACTORY BUTTE PEDIMENT
"OF MEANDERS AND MANCOS MUD II"
FACTORY BUTTE PEDIMENT
Wednesday, December 31, 2014
Wayne County, Utah, Opening a window on wonder. (a gallery in progress 4 images)
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"A HIDDEN CRACK IN THE FOLD WALL,"
WAYNE COUNTY, UTAH
"THE GREAT TEXTURE PATTERN FIELD RISE INTO CAPITOL REEF,"
WATERPOCKET FOLD, WAYNE COUNTY, UTAH
"THE GREAT CAINVILLE LAND RIBBON I,"
WAYNE COUNTY, UTAH
"ON THE FRACTAL FRINGE OF THE
FLORENTINE BARRENS,"
WAYNE COUNTY, UTAHFLORENTINE BARRENS,"
Tuesday, December 23, 2014
LITTLE WILDHORSE AND BELL CANYONS, EMERY COUNTY. UTAH: A gallery in progress from the Wastes of Middle Earth 6 Images
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"MOTHER EARTH IN PRIVATE PLACES I,"
LITTLE WILD HORSE CANYON
"SECRET PASSAGE TOWARD
THE BARREL TOWER HOODOO"
LITTLE WILD HORSE CANYON
"ON THE GRANDE PROMENADE,"
LITTLE WILD HORSE CANYON
LITTLE WILD HORSE CANYON
LITTLE WILD HORSE CANYON
"MOTHER EARTH IN PRIVATE PLACES I,"
LITTLE WILD HORSE CANYON
"SECRET PASSAGE TOWARD
THE BARREL TOWER HOODOO"
LITTLE WILD HORSE CANYON
"ON THE GRANDE PROMENADE,"
LITTLE WILD HORSE CANYON
"IN THE SIREN PASSAGE
OF SANDSTONE CONFESSIONS"
LITTLE WILD HORSE CANYON
"TURN INDICATOR"
LITTLE WILD HORSE CANYON
"AN OMEN OF TWILIGHT"
“THE CANYON’S BREATH WAS LIKE THE ECHO
FROM A CASCADE OF DISTANT WATERS”
Wednesday, December 17, 2014
Austria, The Music of Gravity. (a gallery in Progress)
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“THE FINGER CASCADE,”
STUBI VALLEY, AUSTRIA
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Friday, November 28, 2014
Tse' yie (Canyon de Chelly), Arizona, A spiritual anchor land for the Navajo Nation. (a gallery in progress 2 images).
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"RAIN LANGUAGE"
TSE’ YIE’, APACHE COUNTY, ARIZONA
“THAT THIN MUD RIMMED PROMISE
WHICH IS EVERYTHING,”
TSE’ YIE’, APACHE COUNTY, ARIZONA
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