August 13, 2019
Let’s face it: I am on overload. There are 4 more artists to interview and write about before the grand finale of the Exquisite Gorge project in 2 weeks. No matter how much I enjoy the project – and I do, it has been intellectually satisfying beyond my expectations – these pieces are long and require a lot of informational reading on my part, as you might have guessed if you followed the accumulation.
So I am copping out just a little bit: depending on where I am in the process I will let others speak for YDP.
Today, then, I leave you to words that are magical, in more than one sense of the word, and deeply moving. Obviously not my words. One of the most powerful pieces of writing I’ve come across in a long time.
http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/08/the-black-art-of-escape.html
Photographs are of from the East Fork Lewis River in WA, including Lucia Falls. (Rivers play a role in the linked story.)
Sara Lee
Read the Casey Gerald piece. It requires more than one reading, and I suspect I might not fully comprehend its meaning/sensibility even then. It is heartbreaking, for sure. One day this country – its historians for sure, and maybe even its politicians – is going to have to confront the horrors it has perpetrated for centuries – and of course continues to perpetrate – on the people who came here involuntarily four centuries ago.
More immediately, good luck with lessening the current “overload.”