Wilderness Series - THIS LAND - Grand landscapes of deep space and distant horizons.

" All landscapes have a history, much the same as people exist within cultures, even tribes. There are distinct voices, languages that belong to particular areas. There are voices inside rocks, shallow washes, shifting skies : they are not silent. And there is movement...associated with the earth's motion or the steady unseen swirl through the heavens...( and ) other motion, subtle, unseen, like breathing. A motion, a sound, that if you allow your own inner workings to stop long enough, moves into the place inside you that mirrors a similar landscape; you too can see it, feel it, hear it, know it. "
- Joy Harjo

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Brent McCullough. All Rights Reserved.

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Zabriske Point

Artwork ID# 2306-36727-49

Eroded mudstone, looking like corrugated cardboard, catches the early morning side light.

" These eroded gullies present two views of time. Look at the walls of the gullies and you can see layers of different colored sediment deposited over hundreds of thousands of years. Consider the gullies themselves and you are looking at the action of erosion taking place over thousands of years, " - Paul Doherty," "Traces of Time"

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