I sometimes think that I have a compulsive interest in books, movies, and artworks that portray a degree of suspense in questions around life and death-- I've always been a sucker for a good shoot-em up Spaghetti Western ala Clint Eastwood and I can lose myself big time in a Raymond Chandler murder mystery. I bet you thought I was going somewhere deep with all this didn't you?
My life in the Western U.S. feeds this compulsion quite well. Just consider how each moment, each scene of a Western Landscape contains so many visible life and death scenarios-- and all of them in realtime. Take the above scene as an example--what attracts me to it is the numerous intersecting lines of life, death, decay, and regeneration. Or maybe it's just my recent experiences that are coloring my world and I'm making way too much out of this. Hmmm.....note to myself, start taking more shots of the kids.
Nevada County, CA
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