Studio8 - Uniting the Arts

It tapers elegantly to a point, the next set of bare hills, like any other arbitrary rock pushup in the void, except its ridges happen to be lit up in relaxed angular perfection, all converging at my exact point of relaxed angular desire. It's not a balanced picture.... everything is tilted from right to left. But balance wouldn't survive ten minutes here to begin with, so the picture makes sense on a thousand levels; mainly that one focusing on my exact point of angular desire. I should endeavor to go there. I'm looking for a road.

This stretch of earth is a joke. I'm easily persuaded to adopt a Creator when I make it this far; a Creator showing signs of a sense of humor. In this playful roundscape, where the desert floor arcs gently upward into different time zones, I imagine an inspired hand scooping up an immeasurable quantity of sand and piling it against solid rock, smoothing it out in a thoughtful, deliberate curve; the start of some unknown defining sculpture of existence, right before some unfortunate interruption.

But then, it might just be the light....

layin' on my back
in the sun, feeling
the earth's rotation
as the wind pushes
my being on, feeling
the creator.................

A fine, compact prose poem, mnaz.


--Z

Thanks for the replies, Zlatko and Wired One...

I'm just setting the mood...... getting ready to hit the road by the end of the week. I'll be aiming for Vegas and the Mojave Desert to start with, then east into New Mexico and possibly Colorado and West Texas.

"The roundscape" is indeed a peculiar vision....... gigantic alluvial deposits which form near-perfect curves over vast spaces...... blows my mind every time I see them. Looking forward to it.

Mark

I enjoy your concret-abstract enthusiasm about landscape, great work!.
Good luck with your viaje, post the photos you take.
saludos,

Arcadia

MNaz you are still a desert rat, mon. Wow thanks.
I am jealous yet remember my travels and your salacious yet spare intonations resonates allright!

Arcadia and Jimbo....

I'm glad you're enjoying my obsessed desert scribblings.....
Thanks for the good road sendoff. I appreciate it.

Jimbo.... Nice pic!.....where was it taken?

mnaz

going up thru the panhandles of Oklahoma and Texas I can't remember where I was going. think nw from Armadilo thru the Cherokee strip, into Colorado maybe.

when the road topped a hill I could see a panorama of the strangest geography I have ever seen, peculiar looking hills. I had never seen shapes like that. rolling one after another rollin on and on to the horizon.

I wish I could remember where, but my mind's a joke

maybe they were carved by glaciers

I got my pic off the web image search....looks like around Tuscon.....it sort of reminded me of your description until I saw the other thread of yourn with your photos.....I hope I live to see the desert again. Urban Florida peninsula dweller that I are.

Still Trucking lives near the new Taj Majal somewhere on the edge of where the plains meets the scrub country.