So when I say this work she does was handed down through the generations, she didn’t have a mother or a grandmother, a father, teaching her these traditions. They were in her. In her blood. She carries within her the antiquity of a people she never knew as her own.
An Essence of the High Road to Taos–The High Road Art Tour 2019
… some unattributable giggles were heard in the middle of the night, nobody was scared. They were part of the house’s personality, it’s essence. ‘There are no ghosts in this house,’ my father would say to me…
Dennis Hopper in Taos
“In the late 1960s at the height of his career, Dennis Hopper left Hollywood for artistic bohemia in New Mexico. His daughter looks back on a man in search of free expression and a more contemplative way of life.” This from the NYT tmagazine blog.
Georgia O’Keeffe’s Introduction to New Mexico
I can imagine the two very strong-willed people, each staking their creative claim to New Mexico’s high desert, feeling competitive with each other, each trying to make her mark.
Georgia O’Keeffe’s White Place
I did not set out seeking Georgia as so many seem to do. I just went on a hike with friends. It didn’t occur to me until days later that we were in Georgia O’Keeffe’s White Place.
Hiking Close to Home
And then, standing in that crisp desert air, the sound of a hawk sliced the sky. We looked up to see the redtail circling majestically above us…
Rocks Rock!
… to say I was compelled is putting it mildly. It was almost as though an innate part of me, an ancient part of me, knew that the rock held some essential truth in it I was meant to find. The stories of the Earth are written there in crystal, fossils, obsidian, minerals… what part of that was meant for me?
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