Our next activation at the Prime Desert Woodland Preserve is from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Sunday, Aug. 11, 2019. We will make cyanotype images of desert rocks and plants! It’s a process rooted in photographic history that allows people to essentially take a photo without a camera. Please join us! All ages welcome. All materials will be provided. RSVP here.
Last month, participants in our art activation waxed poetic about the desert and its beauty. Participants first spent some time in the desert and recorded words that came to them. They returned to the visitor’s center with notebooks full of ideas and images and turned those into beautiful Haiku poems. Here’s a few examples of the beautiful poems and images they created.
Joshua trees
Baby Joshua
tree makes me happy because
it’s growing like me.
Ants
Feel like they will crawl
on me. They carry their dead
finding food. Hard workers.
-Anthony, 7
Tumbleweeds
Tumbleweeds. Loners.
Brittle beings in the sun
Quiet. Watching, still.
-Andrea
Squirrels under a
blueberry tree just feasting
fearless watching me.
-Nathan
The Rocks
Some are large and small
All different colors and shapes
They are just like us.
-Hunter
Raven’s craw pierces
The desert’s silent witness
And cuts through the heat
-Viv
