Moonset across the plateau from El Rito, Taos Co, NM. Photo: Geraint Smith (Dec 30, 2023)
(Robert Scott Horton)
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Among the Navajo, the land is thought to exhibit sacred order…each individual undertakes to order his interior landscape according to the exterior landscape. To succeed in this means to achieve a balanced state of mental health…Among the various sung ceremonies of this people-Enemyway, Coyoteway, Uglyway- there is one called Beautyway. It is, in part, a spiritual invocation of the order of the exterior universe, that irreducible, holy complexity that manifests itself as all things changing through time (a Navajo definition of beauty).”
First canvas/painting in ~20y. Just mixed up dysty purple and eventually this materialized pouring on paper as out of my mind. Plenty more to go on this one but at 3:23 I am sleepy.