All Photos © Jake Rajs, Courtesy of The Monacelli Press. This image: Havasupai Indian Reservation in Arizona.
Jake Rajs’ recently published book, Carved by Time, captures the magnificence of the the southwestern landscape. ” There’s no place like the Desert Southwest. It’s a land of parched canyons, bleached solitudes, and bulwarks of intoxicating rock,” Hampton Sides writes in the book’s introduction. “It’s the country made famous by Edward Abbey, Wallace Stegner, and Georgia O’Keeffe, a queer world of upheaval and stark finality cooked in an unforgiving forge. The scale of its dwarfs human beings, not only spatially but also chronologically, suggesting chasms of time that mock our relevance in the story of creation.”
Vermilion Cliffs National Monument, Paria Canyon-Vermilion Cliffs Wilderness, Arizona.
Lost Lake, Gunnison National Forest, Colorado.
Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park, Colorado.
Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park, Colorado.
Pueblo Bonito, Chaco Culture National Historical Park, New Mexico.
Havasupai Indian Reservation, Havasu Canyon, Grand Canyon, Arizona.
Saguaro National Park, Arizona
White Sands National Monument, New Mexico.
woooooo this is so AWESOME!!!!
I am gonna send these pix to my friend because she was just there and I so did not beleive how beautiful she told me it was……
Absolutely incredible. The depth and scale is just phenomenal!
Wow Jake these are spectacular. I think the first one is my favorite but that’s just by slim margin. Really terrific!
Dear Greg,
Good friend thanks. When I saw the Southwest for the first time 39 years ago, I found something that was true and moving to me. Touched me as a person, touched some deep truth that moved my core.
I found a place that was mysterious, different, true to myself as a person, some deep truth that touched my core. was so powerful that it has guided me through forty years of my artistic life.
Fondly
Jake
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