invasion not so much
defined by the Mojave
Desert but by our belief
that perhaps we are not
alone. Every rock is in
its place, with careful
respect to its geological
hierarchy, even the distant
headlights, which almost
comically condemn the
notion of other world
function, play a role in the
stage design of nowhere
must be somewhere.
In Early Morning Climb,
(right) we can make
out the white streak of
an abandoned miners
road bound for a distant
mountaintop.
Sunrise
is a matter of pre-dawn
reflection, and Bracken’s
image is more of an
outline than a full visual
statement. Several other
images in the exhibit
work in the same way
and appear as narrative
documents to occupy
the view and remind
us of the natural spirit
of the Mojave National
Preserve’s 1.6 million
acres.
Early Morning Climb
Evan Bracken is a
photography graduate from The Rochester Institute of Technology, working as an art photographer,
but his advertising background strengthens this exhibit as he provides us with an inventory of creative
images that castrate place and time without any fixed destination. In life, as in the Mojave Desert, all
is not known and nowhere can be as magical as a simple starlight or as complex as a moon shadow.
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