For several years, on trips out west, I took photos from the car window with the intention of later working on them to create a mix of different levels of the fuzzy dreaminess that landscapes, towns and cities can take on in the traveler’s memory, sometimes only moments after being viewed, as one pushes on to the next horizon.
Well, I think I finished the 2005 Views from the Road set, which can be viewed here on my art website.
The above pic is from the Painted Desert area in Arizona.
UNENDING WONDERS OF A SUBATOMIC WORLD is an angst-ridden, slap-happy, run if you can't leave 'em laughing investigation on the questions of mad coincidence and improbable meanings that spin around the Great Wheel as it bumps along toward whatever end has captured its fancy. And while along for the ride, let's at least have some fun with it in a Ferrari and Italian sunglasses that lend operatic vistas, with a woman running from impending nuptials and an unfolding history in soft-core surrealist art porn, her working homeless friend who is grieving the loss of her 1972 Impala, a band by the name of Orange Joe playing behind a female Elvis impersonator, a golf shop owner who wants something more in life than a pyramid-scheming wife and trysts at the Oasis with his accountant, and reflections on America the Beautiful which killed off its buffalo and fenced up its First Nations peoples all so Faith Hazy and Chance Hope would be able to one day pursue pending dreams from Valentine, Georgia to Little America, fueled by novelty, convenience, and Faith's patriotic determination to be a good consumer on someone else's bankroll. |
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Wonderful slide show. You’ve captured just what it is I love about driving long distances, even though I haven’t seen those particular places before. Something about the wide open, the road, the sky, the sunlight that can take on some larger, deeper dimension.
Thanks, Nina. Been a while. I should write you and say hi.
Yeah, it has been awhile. I think of you often. As usual, very busy at work, working all weekend at one point and parts of weekends, plus the weekday. My brother and his family are with us right now, which is wonderful, but means I’ve been happily occupied with them. But yes, let me know how things are going with you. Write privately if you prefer.
That was wonderful. I could feel the wind in my hair.