Land Lines

Abstraction, often a result of reducing distance and focus to eliminate context, can also be realized by instead expanding context and allowing the landscape to express itself in larger terms.

These images are desert landscapes - primarily dry or drying lakebeds. Tracks are formed by four-legged beasts in some instances and four-wheeled beasts in others. Wind, water and heat are the forces that persistently prepare the canvas. Shorelines advance and retreat; vegetation follows in tenuous flourish.

Seen from above, these patterns, textures, and subtle colors reveal the richness of environments generally considered sterile and uninteresting save to weekend warriors in their steel chariots. The molestation of the land by off-road vehicles ironically creates delicate beauty unseen and unknown by the motoring "artists." Likewise, free-roaming creatures weave intricate and artistically exquisite lines leading to destinations unknown.

The inhospitable reveals its subtle and delicate motif when the conceit of human eye level is relinquished.

 
 
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