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."
Mountains Within Mountains
Artwork ID # 2306-31626-34
After many years of collecting and pursuing Suiseki, and Dream Stones , I immediately felt a strong personal resonance after stumbling upon this rock face near Clingman's Dome in the Great Smoky Mountains . For me , it joged my memory of Suiseki, the Japanese art of miniature landscape stones , and Dreamstones which refers to China's extraordinary natural stone paintings or " Shi Hua ".
The colorful inclusions and mineral staining, are for me, evocative of a distant series of mountainous peaks. Visually they form a close resemblance and correspondence to a colorful compressed view of jagged summits.
North CarolinaAppalachian MountainsGreat Smoky Mountains National ParkDeep Creeknear Clingman's DomerockstonePrecambrian rocksOcoee Supergroupmetamorphicsandstonephylitesschists
From Wilderness Series Archive - "An ARCHIVE of every WILDERNESS SERIES image"
