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C o n v e r s a t i o n s w i t h t h e A r t i s t
Leaving Las Vegas on my way to southern California, I am in the Mojave Desert. The
southern tip of Nevada is the northern-most part of the desert.
Even in the desert there are trees. In this case, the limbs are stripped bare of
leaves. But the resident phantasm exists. In the middle of the desert, this spirit survives.
I was hiking and had stopped for a break. There it was. Sacred? I think so. It
reached out to me and stopped me.
It is an inspiration because it reaches up to the clouds. That is the real message
here. Look up and embrace.
That is the focus that I want to evoke. The viewer’s eye should go to the clouds.
They are the dominant object. The dominant color is the contrast—the black of the
tree. I would not crop this at all.
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