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On the Colorado Plateau of the Southwestern United States, the surface of the land seems merely an arbitrary boundary - a truce line that our own habits of observation grasp to draw between two intermixing aspects of deeply felt reality: the experience of solidity, knowability, structure, and longevity on the one hand; and, on the other, that which we poetically encounter as undulating, flowing, endless, and boundless - the waves that vibrate the mass. The division between what we call land and what we call sky is, in actuality, simply a classification of density. Here in the Southwest, we can see that both are realms clearly in motion - they bubble into, out of, and through each other. The land's surface is the tangible and visible imprint that reveals the ever-complex mingle of process and form. Its boggling fractal patterns lure our ancient and quintessentially human sense of wonder out beyond its practiced edge and into states of childlike fascination and unknowing. The environment is inherently ‘experiential’ here, and losing oneself in its midst is a remarkably peaceful pleasure.
MFA, University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts
BA, University of Pennsylvania (through Annenberg School for Communication)
