Sister Shasta: Volcanic Thinking
All of the pictures below were taken in the week of August 25 to September 1, when I traveled from Lalalandia to the Bay Area and then to Oregon to work on several projects. I interviewed the biologist Renee Codsi for a book on Lebanon's marine life (called "Scuba Diving in Beirut"), and these interviews took place in LA and Santa Cruz, where she was raised. I then traveled to Shasta with my sister to drink the waters and study stone, and to talk to her about how women's interests in science are so casually abandoned in the interests of family and children. From there it was off to Bend, Oregon to film a 'cine-poem' for the poet and anthropologist Gisele Godspeed. We shot in Bend, Redmond, and in the dramatic landscapes of the McKenzie Pass. The Sisters volcano chain was always in the sky. In Eugene I stopped to visit Terese Margaux and her solar-powered fiancee, and we talked about autism, a central theme in my life for several months. I traveled south on the Pacific Coast Highway, and stopped at the Monterey Bay Aquarium to take pictures of their baby white shark -- I'd written editorials for the Seattle Times and Baltimore Sun years ago with the Aquarium's help. The pictures also partly form a backdrop to a section of the novel I am working on called "The American." The section is called "Shark on Lava," and can be read as long as it is posted, probably until the New Year.
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Balmy mural 1024
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Shasta contrails 1024
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Shasta invert 1024
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Cloudy truck on i5 1024
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Shasta trunk 1024
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Vu fm avalanche gulch
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Volcanic play 1024
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Dragonfly
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Power crossing 1024
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Mckenzie skyline 1024
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Sculpted pressure 1024
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Turtle trash food 1024
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Jellyfish down 1024
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Anemonic solo 1024
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Fishy conformation 1024
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Pacific sunset on water 1024
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Dunes on fire 1024
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Micro marsh rte 1 1024
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Hidden cave 1024
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Coastal framing
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Big sur dusk 1024
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Wolf moon 1024
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