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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
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.
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