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Anasazi Places
Cottonwood
Dark Water
Ghost Light
Horses
Meeting Sky
Patina
Sourdough Trail
Tepee Creek
Waterfalls
Winter Water |
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On recent trips to the Colorado Plateau, I have become fascinated by the
remains of structures built by the Anasazi almost a thousand years ago.
They seem to fit into their environment as if they had grown in
place—which they did. Local materials and simple forms allowed fluid
integration with adjacent structures and the surrounding cave or cliff.
I am particularly interested in the way the rock matrix supports,
shapes, and completes the human constructions.
Beyond its physical role, the rock also plays a more spiritual one. It
may be soaring and light or heavy and dark, inviting or forbidding; it
may recall water or flame, skies and clouds, or even animate beings.
The former inhabitants must have felt themselves as intimately
connected to the rock as the dwellings they left behind. |
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