Mars Rocks

 Photo credit: Garry Hayes, Death Valley, CA

Desert landscapes have so much to say about color. Isolated from a variety of distracting elements, all that is recognizable are repeating color relationships. You can look at a hillside, and all you see are endless clusters of red, green and yellow. 

Photo credit: Mike Green, Ubehebe Crater, Death Valley, CA

Lynn Radeka, Black Rocks, Death Valley, CA, 1978.

The surface of Mars

Still Lives

Irving Penn, Still Life with Onion Skin, N.Y., 1947

Irving Penn, Still Life with Grape and Moth, N.Y., 1976

Irving Penn, 18 Pieces with Medicine Bottle, N.Y., 1980

These still lives do not assume an audience. The compositions are balanced, simple and make you feel like you've just come across a little marking of someone. I sense the same presence in this floor mosaic. A childlike process, meant only for personal amusement. 

Herakleitos, after a work by Sosos, Asaroton (Unswept Floor); 2nd century CE