Desert Ice is a gathering of B&W images made starting in winter of 2007. I have put many of the B&W images into a blurb.com book with the subtitle - a fleeting romance. Ice, in any form, is only around for a short period of time unlike the rock, that remains seemingly forever. I've seen also grow in form as I stand in the cold shade making a composition. I've seen it break apart, and I've returned to a wonderful untouched sheet only to find that someone has tramped across it, smashing it for the instant gratification received. Hell, I did that too when I was younger. My task then is to make something it based on my sense of destruction. I like the abstract forms that are present in the ice. They are a dreamscape. I can get lost in them and I love bringing them to completion. Ice in the desert is generally considered an anomaly, but this is the high desert of the Colorado Plateau, where ice can form over the Colorado River. A good number of these images were made out on the ice (not very far!) on the river. Others were made on the few area perennial or spring-fed streams. I delight in the forms and metaphors found in their frozen grace. The first part of this gallery holds BW images you can find in the book "Desert Ice."
The rest and the color images are part of this ongoing project - as long as climate change does not make the ice totally disappear!
