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A clay mesa and a small butte stand on a flat sand plain under a pale sky. Beneath them, their upside-down reflection is broken into thin horizontal strips, each nudged a little sideways.
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Mirage

No. 13 of 20 · free · 300 dpi

What you seeA clay mesa and a small butte stand on a flat sand plain under a pale sky. Beneath them, their upside-down reflection is broken into thin horizontal strips, each nudged a little sideways.

What it meansA mirage is the sky reflected in hot air; here the land is reflected instead and breaks as it shimmers. The strips thin towards the viewer.

Where it worksMade for a study or reading room. It rewards a longer look.

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Seen from directly above, a channel snakes down the sheet through five stepped terraces of rock, dark red at the rim to pale apricot at the bottom, with a ribbon of sand along its bed and a thin line of green scrub down its middle.River of GreenNo. 17
A circle on a bone ground holds a small desert view: a blue-to-apricot sky, a pale sun on the horizon and two dunes in red and brown. A thin ink ring marks the edge, and the horizon continues across the bone on either side as a fine grey line.Horizon in a CircleNo. 18
Looking straight up a narrow slot canyon: smooth sandstone walls curve in from both sides in bands of colour, deep red at the edges of the frame warming through clay and ochre to gold, until only a thin, winding line of pale sky is left between them.Slot CanyonNo. 19
A lone flat-topped sandstone butte, its talus sweeping up into a sheer cliff, stands on an ochre plain against a peach sky, with a pale sun setting on the horizon just beside it. Its shadow runs towards you in a long dark red wedge to the foot of the frame.Long ShadowNo. 20
Four rolling bands of dune, pale to dark, fill the lower half beneath a peach sky. A small clay sun sits just above the first ridge.DunesNo. 1

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