Stephen E. Strom

Light Forms / Earth Forms

Mlue Mudhills near Hanksville, UT Mudhills, Golden Canyon, Death Valley South Desert, Cathedral Valley
Mudhills, Little Painted Desert Mudhills after Rain, Nazlini
Mudhills, Nazlini, AZ Sandstone Forms: John's Canyon
Dry Riverbed near Factory Butte Eroded Sandstone
Sunset, Canyon de Chelly Rim Mudhills Little Painted Desert, AZ
Hillside, Golden Valley, Death Valley Hillside, Jicarilla Apache Reservation
Hillside with Ocotillo: Anza Borrego State Park, CA South Desert overlook II: Cathedral Valley, UT
Hillside, South of Bluff Badlands, Anza Borrego State Park, CA
Rock Forms, John's Canyon, UT Badlands near Terlingua, TX Mudhill Spine

Images in this portfolio were assembled from photographs of the desert southwest taken between 1980 and 2000. They attempt to capture what is nearly beyond the camera's grasp: a land shaped by millennial forces and yesterdayÕs cloudburst into undulations of color and form Ð its history reimagined in light that at once penetrates and sculpts. I bring to this landscape the sensibilities of an astronomer who has lived in the desert for almost 20 years, and in whom the desert has lived for more than 30. My tools are simple: a 35mm or 4x5 view camera, and long focal length lenses whose power to compress vast desert spaces can create an illusion of intimacy, of comprehension. The original transparencies were scanned, processed and reformatted, inviting viewers to look deeply into what light and earth together form.

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