Window Dressing
Chloride, Arizona
2025

Bright red and green, a perfect color combination for the season. Happy holidays everyone!

Modern Pictographs #7
Chloride, Arizona
2025

Modern Pictographs #6
Chloride, Arizona
2025

This collection of murals on rocks is titled “The Journey: Images from an Internal Search for Self.” Given that title, I might suspect the maze in this mural was somewhat symbolic of that inward search. If so it was (or is) perhaps a difficult journey given there seems to be no way in or out of the maze itself.

Modern Pictographs #5
Chloride, Arizona
2025

Modern Pictographs #4
Chloride, Arizona
2025

A lot of interesting themes here, none of which I can make much sense out of. But it’s interesting just the same.

Modern Pictographs #3
Chloride, Arizona
2025

Modern Pictographs #2
Chloride, Arizona
2025

The text at the bottom of this boulder says “Painted Originally in 1966, Repainted in 2006. My friend Teresa was commenting to me recently about how much quicker red ink fades in the sun compared to other colors, in particular blue. That has me wondering how red (rather than pink) this boulder might have been 24 years ago when it was repainted. The boulder from yesterdays POT, assuming it was painted about the same time,  has certainly kept it’s bright blue color well.

Modern Pictographs #1
Chloride, Arizona
2025

Does an image on a rock have to be old to be considered a pictograph rather than graffiti? Or if it’s billed as an art project, does that remove it from the graffiti category? I don’t know but someone has been busy recently in the otherwise sleepy looking little town of Chloride.

Bare Tree #140
Chloride, Arizona
2025

Home Ground #37
Bozeman, Montana
2024