Heavens - Cerulean blue / New Mexico

Etymology: Latin. cæruleus sky-blue, prob. :- cælolos, from cælum - sky, heaven


In the desert,
Turn toward emptiness,
Fleeing the self.

Stand alone,
Ask no one’s help,
And your being will quiet,
Free from the bondage of things.

from The desert has many teachings - Mechthild of Magdeburg (1210 – c. 1285)


Old desert sun washed license plates evoke a melancholia in me. For times past - past lives - for uncluttered space. The faded colours have become quite ethereal. I have a number of such plates from New Mexico and Arizona: collectors shun the faded plates...

I find myself craning to catch a glimpse of plates on cars in old movies - a key to reimagine monochrome as colour. Spreading to the car, the people, the landscape... a burden lifted - light.