Thinking about a new series…
Jan 27th, 2010 by kali
My fine art work has been on hold recently because I’m still setting up my new studio, but I’ve been able to do quite a bit of beading and polymer clay jewelry design. (Pictures are posted at my jewelry blog site, Fresh Monsters.) I do have an idea for a new multimedia series based on my photos I took of the Utah and Arizona deserts last May.
- The aftermath of a large forest fire in the Sierras.
It was probably my last trip to my beloved desert for many years, and so it’s especially poignant for me to work with the images. I took my husband, who had never been to the U.S. before, because I wanted to show him the part of the world that meant the most to me and he was appropriately awed. At the same time, were were both disappointed at the amount of development in previously untouched areas of canyon country. It was especially noticeable in the Paria and Escalante regions.
- Looking up at a giant redwood.
I’d grown used to the fact that once deserted parks have turned into parking lots (Arches is the worst, where you can’t even find a parking space to walk down a hiking trail), but it saddened me to see the canyons around Kanab now surrounded by housing developments. (Especially ironic in light of the mortgage crisis — I’m sure most of them will remain empty and some will fall to ruin without ever being occupied.)
- At our campsite in the national forest near the north entrance to Grand Canyon.
- Looking up the wall of Kitchen Canyon, at the bottom of a ledge.
- The scale of rocks is so hard to determine from a photo. These are very small.
