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dust & shadow - field trip #1
May/June 02017 by FoAM.Earth
Guests: Nik Gaffney and Maja Kuzmanovic (FoAM)
Hosts: Ron Broglio, Adam Nocek, Stacey Moran, Sha Xin Wei (ASU)
We arrived in the Sonoran desert. A place of desiccated time, layered time, geological, vegetal, human time. Time kneads the Earth’s crust into deep folds, cracks and canyons. Plants lay dormant through cycles of drought or grow slowly for centuries, bursting into blossom after the first rains. Humans come and go. Blown through the ages like tumbleweeds. Things don’t really decay here. They shrivel, dry up or slowly rust, yet remain present, as they gradually erode into dust. A thick, dusty atmosphere of things that were, things that are and things that might be. Densities and intensities coagulating on a larger than human scale, illuminated by stark light or lurking in the deep shadow.
Read more in FoAM's Dust and Shadow: FieldNotes #1 on Medium
Itinerary:
- Residency at the Combine Studios in Phoenix
- Oak Creek canyon (mountains/forest)
- Songbird Coffee and Tea House became our 'local' for morning debriefs, mapping, planning, etc.
- James Turrel's Air Apparent
- Casa Grande Ruins (holes / solstice /lunar standstill / ~18.6yrs)
- Road trip along i10
- Drylab2023, (Adiene Jenik’s living water project)
- Joshua tree national park and meeting the park ranger
- Salton sea (and its yacht club)
Ron Broglio's List 1 and Thoughts on Cairns and Animism
Planned but not visited:
- High Desert Test Site, Joshua Tree
- Anasazi Archeology)
Memorable foods: