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Whispers of the West: A Surreal Journey Through Crimson Canyons

Rock Bottom, acrylic on panel, 24x18”. 2022. Daniel Merriam.

Joan Jett and Sandy West

I'm forever drawn to places where the Earth's geologic past has been thrust up from the mantle and opened like a crusty, craggy history book for all to read. The act of simply touching a rock formation that is hundreds of millions of years in the making and simultaneously connecting with the continent's primeval origins is both sacred and profound. Every layer of rock tells a story of its own. Against these accumulated histories, our mayfly existences barely register. Rock City at Coopers Rock State Forest is one of those very special places where the Earth has revealed her deepest secrets. The Pottsville Formation that underlies this part of Central Appalachia is estimated to be 300 hundred million years old. The massive slabs in the photos above are Connoquenessing sandstone, an erosion-resistant sedimentary rock that evokes the incredible drama of Earth's formation wherever it breaks through the crust.

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Hello, Daddy, hello, Mom I'm your ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch, cherry bomb (x)

“Bonus”

“Debbie Harry, Dog Dance. 1977.”  Photographed by Donna Santisi at the Whisky A Go Go in Los Angeles.

WIP involving Wark the Very Dumbest Sunwing (thanks Kotaloy Elysium for the excellent name)

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70's The Runaways.

Chuck Berry at the Fillmore, San Francisco 1970.⁣ Photo : Jim Marshall.

The Runaways 1978

"Where, twisted round the barren oak, The summer vine in beauty clung, And summer winds the stillness broke, The crystal icicle is hung."

Winter in the Woods, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

Earlier today along Scott Run Trail in Coopers Rock State Forest.