Georgia O’Keeffe, at her home known as the Ghost Ranch, New Mexico. 1968.
Photo by A.Newman. :: [Mikhail Iossel]
* * * *
“The truth about the world, he said, is that anything is possible. Had you not seen it all from birth and thereby bled it of its strangeness it would appear to you for what it is, a hat trick in a medicine show, a fevered dream, a trance bepopulate with chimeras having neither analogue nor precedent, an itinerant carnival, a migratory tentshow whose ultimate destination after many a pitch in many a mudded field is unspeakable and calamitous beyond reckoning.
The universe is no narrow thing and the order within it is not constrained by any latitude in its conception to repeat what exists in one part in any other part. Even in this world more things exist without our knowledge than with it and the order in creation which you see is that which you have put there, like a string in a maze, so that you shall not lose your way. For existence has its own order and that no man's mind can compass, that mind itself being but a fact among others.”
― Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
Georgia O'Keefe, American Artist, 1887-1986:: Chama River, Ghost Ranch 1937
Oil on Canvas, 32.25 × 16 in.:: New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
[A CELEBRATION OF FEMALE ARTISTS]
* * * *
“To love someone is to grant him or her the gift of one’s pure and undivided attention, without preconceived expectations of what the other person needs, what we imagine to be best in the situation, what particular results we want to engineer.”
― Belden C. Lane, The Solace of Fierce Landscapes: Exploring Desert and Mountain Spirituality