This little number comes to you courtesy of our upcoming summer show and a possible article for Shadow and Light. It’s rare when I can vanquish two birds with one theme. That theme is Roadside Attractions, the working title of our sixth biannual show at our Taos Gallery, Wilder Nightingale. So, here’s your first notice of the show which will open on Saturday, August 30. Consider yourself warned.
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| "We're not in Kansas anymore, Toto." |
The theme, Roadside Attractions, comes from Peggy’s fertile brain.
Though I have had reservations about the title and have wondered if it's too restrictive, I’ve embraced it more or less. Can a still life be a roadside attraction? On the other hand, most of my photographs and Peggy’s
paintings have been inspired by short jaunts or meandering journeys into the southwestern landscape. So, that part works.
New road trips are part of the plan and in the past week we returned to the San Luis Valley of southern Colorado. So, on our week ago yesterday excursion we revisited old friends like the Great Sand Dunes National Park and an abandoned farmhouse in Mosca, Colorado. A dozen years ago I photographed the lonely dwelling which looked to me more like the Midwest than Southwest. So, I called the photograph “We’re not in Kansas anymore, Toto.” I’ve been processing the new ones of the farmstead and either the original will be in the show or one of the new ones if it’s better. Both of these are 2025 iterations.
Just south of the Colorado border on the way to the San Luis Valley we explored the town of Costilla. West of the downtown, I use the term loosely, on the west side of NM 522 we found an entire village of abandoned buildings. It’s as if Costilla once thrived then died. One of the photographs of the abandoned buildings shown above is a work in process but I'm getting there.
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| A sliver of color in the high desert, |
New road trips are part of the plan and in the past week we returned to the San Luis Valley of southern Colorado. So, on our week ago yesterday excursion we revisited old friends like the Great Sand Dunes National Park and an abandoned farmhouse in Mosca, Colorado. A dozen years ago I photographed the lonely dwelling which looked to me more like the Midwest than Southwest. So, I called the photograph “We’re not in Kansas anymore, Toto.” I’ve been processing the new ones of the farmstead and either the original will be in the show or one of the new ones if it’s better. Both of these are 2025 iterations.
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| Abandonado, Costilla, NM. |
Just south of the Colorado border on the way to the San Luis Valley we explored the town of Costilla. West of the downtown, I use the term loosely, on the west side of NM 522 we found an entire village of abandoned buildings. It’s as if Costilla once thrived then died. One of the photographs of the abandoned buildings shown above is a work in process but I'm getting there.
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Roadside Attractions absolutely works, Steve. That will be a great show for Wilder Nightingale! The selective toning on the Costilla abandoned building is wonderful, as is the blue sky emerging through the window of the abandoned farm house in Mosca. Nicely done!
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