Wilderness Series - PARTS UNKNOWN - A Journey to the Surface of Earth
Renaissance cartographers used the phrase terra incognita to refer to unknown areas of the world. This portfolio is a visual journey to hidden surface features of the earth. James Hillman spoke about restoring a love of our earth through an awareness of its surfaces - " things have skins and faces and smells...things speak to us."
Morning Air
Artwork ID # 2306-39125-53.
" So calm, so calm.../ At the edge of gray silken waters, / Like an afternoon with Monet. "
- " Becoming the Elk Now " from "Shards of Yellowstone " a work of poems created in 1991 - 1993 by Yellowstone National Park " writer-in-residence Katya Williamson.
A deep mist sliding by, right to left, over a wide open space in the Norris Geyser Basin. Then, suddenly there was startlingly clear blue sky radiating bright light which revealed the colors of blue-green and tan algae alive inside the groundwater heated by geothermal activity .
Norris BasinWyomingYellowstone National Parkmistalgaegeothermalbluegreenblue skycalmnessflowingMonetlanguidnesssteamsilence
From Wilderness Series Archive - "An ARCHIVE of every WILDERNESS SERIES image"
