Grand Canyon NP, AZ, 2024

When our “Go West…” tour left Wyoming, into Utah, the landscape went from ascendant to eroding. As we continued into Arizona, the wearing away continued deep into the earth at the Grand Canyon, and in the emptiness of Monument Valley.

I think most “abstract” photography, an effort to remove or minimize objective references, is attempted by moving very close to the real world subject. Sometimes that can also be accomplished in the opposite direction, from a great distance.

The layers of color and texture represent eons, the millennia of slowly building up the sedimentary landscape, then the millennia of wearing it down, exposing the timeline. It’s easy to feel small in the American West; like the line at the end of “The Rocky Horror Picture Show:”

“Lost in time, and lost in space.”

For the new Arizona, 2024 gallery, including the Grand Canyon, Monument Valley, and Mexican Hat, go to https://www.billdurrence.com/index/G00008U3azjOiktY