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Just over the mountains north of the town where I grew up, the Mojave Desert stretches for days into past and future. I camped there as a boy, climbed among the arroyos and volcanic extrusions, watched wildlife—human and otherwise. I sit there now, seeking as others have,
relief from the noise and distraction of the city. The desert is special to me, and I have never once seen it as empty space. The expansion I seek from the Western desert is represents a return to civility.
These twenty images are details from the paintings from that exhibit. Yadira Dockstader assisted in arranging the sequence to reflect the unfolding of visual stories. Sections of the original paintings are reproduced in printed form, and combined with short poems distilled from the longer text that originally accompanied the paintings and formed six linked short desert narratives. The stories, and the short verses derived from them, explore the mystery of vast spaces less impacted by cities and towns.
My artwork, though abstract, speaks to directly to desert spaces. My writing that accompanies the art seeks not to explain as much to explore. Here I tell stories in short poetic form, in Cheritas*. For it is in the journeys we walk across our own deserts, we find that for which we
seek.
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