This summer’s drought map of Four Corners haloes a fiery blood blob, appearing as the seething remains of an extraterrestrial arriving too fast on Earth.  The heating is geo-anthro, a spiraling cycle of desire and affect.  The blessing sun, neutral and forgiving, fuels the atmosphere, alighting evenly on skin, fur, leaf, and stone.  And on glass, concrete, and impounded waters.   

In the red rock downslope of the Carrizo Mountains near Four Corners in Arizona, carved and painted figures witnessing centuries of change, watery abundance, desiccation, desire, ambition, absence, and a renewed presence. A Navajo man looking skyward toward the cliffs’ darting swifts, “The spirits of the ancient ones, the Anasazi.”  In this century, here now and heating, the ancient ones in frictioning forbearance seeing into a future accelerating toward the present.

Carrizo Mountains RED