Desert Skin

Tom Miller's photographs of the Colorado Plateau offer a unique view of a remarkable landscape. His delicate black-&-white images emphasize texture & tactility rather than massive form or saturated color. Here, the Plateau emerges as a place of secrets & subtlety; its past a prologue. Further enhancing the dream quality of these images is the fact that most were taken from the air, a vantage that renders meaningless such distinctions as "rightside up" & "upside down." The abstracting height from which these pictures were made allows us to view the Colorado Plateau as a place where unexpected things occur & unexpected thoughts are experienced. "Perhaps nowhere is the basic structure of the earth's surface so clearly, because so nakedly, revealed. And yet--when all we know about it is said & measured & tabulated, there remains something in the soul of the place, the spirit of the whole, that cannot be fully assimilated by the human imagination."--from the opening essay by Edward Abbey.Miller, Thomas is the author of 'Desert Skin' with ISBN 9780874804607 and ISBN 0874804604.