sunset Crater Volcano

passing by warped diagonal bands of rock slag. photographed at a gas station in Mexican Hat, Utah while driving south from Capitol Reef through Glen Canyon National Recreation Area the highway Mexican Hat is on, the road which leads to Monument Valley from the north. Mexican Hat, population 31, is on the northern border of the Navajo nation. The road leads through the wind blasted iron oxide saturated siltstone carvings of Oljato Monument Valley.

Tents with tables appear along the road displaying Navajo turquoise and silver jewelry for wandering tourists. The road leads from Monument Valley through Tuba City on the way to Flagstaff. Before Flagstaff the highway passes through Wupatki National Monument and then Sunset Crater Volcano National Monument, the site of Sunset Crater a dormant volcano.

The original site for the volcanic sands installation was to be Cinder Cone, Lassen National Park, CA. Due to heavy winter snows which closed the roads leading to Lassen, a different site had to be chosen. Sunset Crater in Arizona became a logical location. The ranger at Sunset Crater revealed that the trails going to the closest volcano summit were no longer open due to the fragility of the volcanic silt which led to an excess of landslides. However there were other trails which wound through the slag and climbed up older long extinct volcanic mounds of pulverized black pumice.

The video animation golferInGoldFishBowl is projected by the rif6 Cube onto the bottom of a fishbowl turned upside down. The golfer in the animation was playing golf at Jakob Riis Park. The animation for golferInGoldfishBowl has been shaped as a circle to fit in the bottom rim of the bowl. The video was recorded at the edge of a field of angular chunks of broken volcanic slag pieces.

Leaving Flagstaff driving east on highway 40 is the Painted Desert. A painted desert of striated layers of multicolored mudstone and sandstone deposits piled into mounds. Walking through the bands of bluish purple sandstone against the saturated blue sky triggers hallucinogenic impressions.

The Petrified Forest boasts over 650 petroglyphs covering a group of rock faces within a small area. High concentrations of petroglyphs like this mark a place as culturally significant. Many generations of people saw these markings and contributed their own. The petroglyphs were created by ancestral Peubloan people living, farming, and hunting along the Puerco River between 650 and 2,000 years ago. There is no linear narrative to the markings but there are obvious meanings, references, replies.

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	passing by warped diagonal bands of rock slag. photographed at a gas station in Mexican Hat, Utah while driving south from Capitol Reef through Glen Canyon National Recreation Area the highway Mexican Hat is on, the road which leads to Monument Valley from the north. Mexican Hat, population 31, is on the northern border of the Navajo nation. The road leads through the wind blasted iron oxide saturated siltstone carvings of Oljato Monument Valley.
	Tents with tables appear along the road displaying Navajo turquoise and silver jewelry for wandering tourists. The road leads from Monument Valley through Tuba City on the way to Flagstaff. Before Flagstaff the highway passes through Wupatki National Monument and then Sunset Crater Volcano National Monument, the site of Sunset Crater a dormant volcano.
	The original site for the volcanic sands installation was to be Cinder Cone, Lassen National Park, CA. Due to heavy winter snows which closed the roads leading to Lassen, a different site had to be chosen. Sunset Crater in Arizona became a logical location. The ranger at Sunset Crater revealed that the trails going to the closest volcano summit were no longer open due to the fragility of the volcanic silt which led to an excess of landslides. However there were other trails which wound through the slag and climbed up older long extinct volcanic mounds of pulverized black pumice.
	The video animation golferInGoldFishBowl is projected by the rif6 Cube onto the bottom of a fishbowl turned upside down. The golfer in the animation was playing golf at Jakob Riis Park. The animation for golferInGoldfishBowl has been shaped as a circle to fit in the bottom rim of the bowl. The video was recorded at the edge of a field of angular chunks of broken volcanic slag pieces.
	Leaving Flagstaff driving east on highway 40 is the Painted Desert. A painted desert of striated layers of multicolored mudstone and sandstone deposits piled into mounds. Walking through the bands of bluish purple sandstone against the saturated blue sky triggers hallucinogenic impressions.
	The Petrified Forest boasts over 650 petroglyphs covering a group of rock faces within a small area. High concentrations of petroglyphs like this mark a place as culturally significant. Many generations of people saw these markings and contributed their own. The petroglyphs were created by ancestral Peubloan people living, farming, and hunting along the Puerco River between 650 and 2,000 years ago. There is no linear narrative to the markings but there are obvious meanings, references, replies.