“Alone in the silence, I understand for a moment the dread which many feel in the presence of primeval desert, the unconscious fear which compels them to tame, alter or destroy what they cannot understand, to reduce the wild and prehuman to human dimensions. Anything rather than confront directly the anti-human, that other world which frightens not through danger or hostility but in something far worse – its implacable indifference.”
I feel that a real living form is the natural result of the individual’s effort to create the living thing out of the adventure of his spirit into the unknown — where it has experienced something — felt something — it has not understood — and from that experience comes the desire to make the unknown — known —
Making the unknown — known — in terms of one’s medium is all absorbing — if you stop to think of form — as form you are lost — The artist’s form must be inevitable — You mustn’t think you won’t succeed —
I wait for the moment I’ll return to the trails as I did for twelve years beneath Tucson’s blue sky in some world of youth and springtime. Give me, Powers of the Universe, the springtime but spare me the child.
Hedgehog Cactus (genus Echinocereus) Blossoms — Image by kenne
The hedgehog cactus earned its name because its short, spiny stems resemble hedgehogs. The blossoms last for five days, opening in the morning and closing at night.
Most people, when asked to identify a yellow spring flower would probably identify daffodils. But, in the sunny Tucson area, most people would say the prickly pear cactus blossom, or the palo verde blossoms.
Yellow is a warm and friendly color and most associated with is the sun. During spring, it almost seems like the sun changes its light from a cold white to a warm and glowy yellow.
“As we know, there are lessons to be learned from history. Hope to be derived from hardships faced before. We’ve gone through bad times before and survived, even thrived. History has shown us the strength and durability of the human spirit, In the end, it is our idealism and our courage, and our commitment to one another –what we have in common–that will save us.”