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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
reaching for the sky just to surrender
For reasons that I don’t understand, Leonard Cohen’s music became my personal soundtrack while I was on the dunes. I don’t mean that I was listening to the music through my phone. I mean that bits of his lyrics would appear in my brain from time to time, unbidden yet still welcome.
In this case, I heard the line “reaching for the sky just to surrender.” This yucca will lose its battle with the movement of the sand, as have the ones that were there before and the ones that will come after. All of them reach for the sky for a time before their inevitable acquiesce. It’s the way of things.
White Sands National Park, New Mexico
photographed 12.13.2025
One Day | One Image 