Mobius, take 4 (IG for Lumbar+)
Added 2023-05-06 20:15:05 +0000 UTC“
Thoracic arch. Can you see it?
TBH I was too tired and hurting too much to get out and shoot this. But I kinda just made an exception and pushed through because I know there’s a good chance I’m never coming back here.
A lot of places are irrevocably changing and I feel a panic as special areas are becoming more populated with crowds, some of which have a sickening entitlement to ruin our remaining wilderness.
This arch is special for me as I’ve shot it during important transitional times over the passed 5 years and those images forever contain the shifts I was experiencing at the time. I’m currently feeling so many changes that I can barely keep up processing it all, so pushing for this was an easy choice to make.
I however didn’t really expect to feel much magic. I literally threw up from neck spasms right before packing my camera stuff to walk out. I was shoving my bag together with minimum energy and maximum struggle. But once I started walking out barefoot in the soft cool sand under the waxing lunar crescent— my current self identifying moon-state ;)— I felt the air wrap around me and swaddle me into a soothing cocoon. A hooting barred owl guided me to my destination. I welcomed the shoot trance and the much slower and meditative process of night photography. Feeling myself bathed in surrounding desert, like a giant endless float tank. My camera capturing forms in the darkness that I felt the presence of but could not see. Feeling my body pulled outward and upwards by each of the suspended stars. This moment and its feelings will fade as I experience new things, but the memory of it is immortalized in the captured imagery to revisit at will.
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Sharing mid res here as I’ll be turning this one into a limited edition print.
If I can find my previous times shooting Mobius Arch, I’ll share them as well. With some writings about exactly why this is such a special place for me. Which also feeds into the sadness to see this place ruined. There was trash EVERYWHERE.
