thephotosocietyのインスタグラム(thephotosociety) - 5月30日 20時46分

Sego Canyon, Utah photo by @salvarezphoto (Stephen Alvarez)
When I first saw paintings like these in the Utah desert they completely freaked me out. I'd been driving across the country and made the turn off I-70 toward some "indian writings" -that's how the map listed them- almost at random. It was winter in the high desert, it was night and I was alone. It seemed like a long drive down a dirt road. The canyon narrowed as I drove through silt beds and dry washes. I pulled into an old corral that served as a parking area and as my headlights swept the canyon wall I could not believe what the lights illuminated. Human sized figures with horns, huge hands, snakes dangling from their bodies. I opened the car door, took out my camera and fired off a few fast frames. Looking through the viewfinder undid me. See the rock art like that, alone and at night, vulnerable was like looking into someone else's dream. A dream I did not understand and could not deal with. I was so unnerved that I did not even leave the car, just shot through space in between the open door and the hood. Like I wanted to keep as much mass in between me and those figures as possible. I shot half a dozen frames at most then got back in the car and sped away. I drove the rest of the way east across Utah and then across half of Colorado. That was almost 30 years ago. I still go back to Sego Canyon every chance I get. Although they do not frighten me like they once did, the images written on the canyon wall still move me. They make me sad as well. I see people paint and scratch over artwork that is centuries old. One of the reasons I started the Ancient Art Archive is to help preserve artwork and places like Sego Canyon so that these stories are not lost forever. The link in @ancientartarchive profile takes you to our support page.
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