Author Archives: Melinda Green Harvey
you’ll never sink when you are with me
I went to the Salton Sea four years ago and just lately took another look at the photos I’d made on the trip.
Some of them appealed to me now more than they did then – and this is one of them.
I do not know what the artist (or artists) intended to convey with this installation in the Salton Sea. Pyramids are said to be linked to funeral rites as a passing of existence beyond time…this one in the dying sea seems especially poignant.
Bombay Beach, California
photographed 2.12.2022
sun/burn
You know how your dermatologist is always talking about using sunscreen?
This right here is why. I mean, just look at their skin – some of it looks like it melted, some of has some awful growths*, and none it of looks healthy.
East Jesus, California
photographed 2.11.2022
*Completely unrelated: what does leprosy look like?
well, this is frightening
There is one thing I strongly believe and that is if the word “escape” is written on the way in to a sketchy building, there is very little chance of your making an actual escape.
So be careful….
Calipatria, California
photographed 2.13.2022
pollination
Just one more thing I learned by looking at the ground….until 2022, I didn’t even know that pollination services were a thing.
Calipatria, California
photographed 2.12.2022
one drop can start a flood
An allegory:
It was just a drop. One drop.
There were drops before it; since I didn’t see them, it’s like they never happened. And there were surely unseen drops that follow, but they didn’t count either. At the time.
But then, before I even knew what was happening, the seen drop and all the unseen ones came together and there was a flood. Damage is still being tallied.
Post, Texas
photographed 8.6.2024
One Day | One Image 