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first in a series of personal odysseys that explore sacred earth sites. A joint project by photographer Scott Angus and Emily Sopensky. first in a series of personal odysseys that explore sacred earth sites. A joint project by photographer Scott Angus and Emily Sopensky.

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Holding Pen. So much more depth shows up in the black-and-white. It looks less like waves and more like a canyon-like holding pen for rocks.

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 Actually this is the first place I found in Escalante. It is much further down the plateau from the other two Escalante photos. This is an unforgiving environ, even more so in the black-and-white version. Forbidding, outlaw country, where even humans are not invited in. Only the desperate find themselves wandering around down there. But this foreboding place serves as a gate to a very sacred site. It is as if the rocks are waves caught in motion, petrified to exclude entry into their midst. In blackand-white, it looks like a huge fortress has formed around a subterranean nest. I would not crop a thing. I like the light on top: it balances the darker foreboding energy in the bottom half of the photograph. 73

Holding Pen. So much more depth shows up in the black-and-white. It looks less like waves and more like a canyon-like holding pen for rocks.

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