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| Sage and Sky, pinhole photograph by Laura Brent, 2013 |
Summer is a time for traveling, and long road trips are the perfect opportunity for uninterrupted thoughts. The southwest is the perfect location for these wanderings, with its brilliant light and expansive air. I feel refreshed and energized having recently returned from those magic desert places. The ideas, mulled over with the miles, have incubated and are ready to come forth through new works.
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| Road Trip, pinhole photograph by Laura Brent, 2013 |
The journey is long, an unending path. The quest - for beauty - in the eye, the mind, and the heart.
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| American Beauty, pinhole photograph by Laura Brent, 2013 |
"To calculate on the unforeseen is perhaps exactly the paradoxical operation that life most requires of us."
"...one does not get lost but loses oneself, with the implication that it is a conscious choice, a chosen surrender, a psychic state achievable through geography"
- Rebecca Solnit, A Field Guide to Getting Lost
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| Tommy Knocker Trail, pinhole photograph by Laura Brent, 2013 |
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Why wander? Will the destination offer up a respite? What discovery will come from an aimless ambling? Looking for the happy happenstance, the quirky coincidence, the surprise prize. What spirits are leading the way? How well do you know them? If you are aware, you can almost see them. And remember, at the end, we all become the dirt of the roads, forever left in the rear-view mirror of life. I plan on leaving something behind.
