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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.
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Desert & Horizon

River of Green

No. 17 of 20 · free · 300 dpi

What you seeSeen 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.

What it meansA wadi runs with water only after rain, but the green along its bed remembers every flood. The terraces are the rock the water has cut through over ages.

Where it worksMade for a long wall or a stairwell; read from a distance it is a single winding line.

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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
A large sun sits half below a flat horizon, its lower edge cut by a dark red plain. The sky fades from warm rose at the top to pale cream at the line.Low SunNo. 2
The frame is cut down the middle. On the left a clay sky meets a sand plain low down, with half a bone sun sitting on it; on the right a peach sky meets an ochre plain higher up, and the other half of the sun is dark red.Split HorizonNo. 3
Twelve horizontal bands of colour run from deep blue at the top through plum and red to pale gold at the horizon. On the dark plain below, four short bars of the same colours narrow towards the viewer.Dusk BandsNo. 4
A broad flat-topped mesa and a smaller butte stand on an ochre plain against a pale sky, each with a dark shadowed face. A small clay sun sits high on the right.MesaNo. 5

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