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Narrative
“There are moments when all jagged anxieties and inner turmoil are soothed in the eroded character, leisure and repose of nature. In the eroding badlands of my soul’s topography and spirit’s evolving palette, I yearn for such weathered and colored tranquil brilliance found only in continuing my ego’s release.” ~ Jack Mountain

One of my favorite places in Death Valley National Park, and not as visited as so many other colorful badland forms found nearby, is 20-mule team canyon road. Its easy to feel solitary here and find connection in the soft multi-layered and colored eroding badland forms between both my inner and outer landscapes.

After many visits over the years, I’ve produced the typical beautiful shots with my own flair, but it was going to require a different kind of effort on my part, coupled with a different kind of lighting not commonly worked with here, to finally find my true mojo with these badland forms.

On a recent wintered, wet, and cold journey here, uncharacteristic of the area, I finally had the conditions needed to produce some true artwork of the soul – both in what I needed to release from the ego within and what I needed from the surrounding light and air atmosphere to provide. With the poor weather dampening the spirits of others, I found I had the place more to myself than usual, allowing me to really wander solitary and connect. Under such wet and overcast conditions, the light allowed me to have smooth diffused and wet lighting for very even exposures that naturally saturate and punctuate the available colors in the greatly varied palette. With light that was perfect and in no rush of going away, I was able to work this landscape in repose for hours.