Sepia
I decided to shoot this feature in Sepia. The reddish-brown color reminds me of the past photographs of the Dust Bowl and the depression years of the thirties.
This winter of warmth and lack of snow has caused inversions to last for weeks in the Valley where I live, creating wisps of misty fog suspended like lacework.
The snow should be as high as the tops of fence posts; instead, I see bare pasture, muddy fields, and dirt roads usually reserved for April.
The trend of climate breakdown we are witnessing is happening faster than most scientists predicted and matches the speed at which many in my community continue to disrespect the land and water.
My photographs contain a warning and also reveal the beauty of this place. The warning is my call to action to protect the place I live.
N. Scott Momaday wrote, " We humans must revere the earth, for it is our well-being. The earth always grants us what we need. If we treat the earth with kindness, it will treat us kindly."
We are past due on treating the earth with kindness, and my fight will be for the community in which I live.
David Gallipoli
"Colors are the deeds and suffering of light."
-Johann Wolfgang Goethe
Language of landscape
on a snowless winter day
speaks a reddish brown.
-David Gallipoli
The bloom of color
comes from the light of landscape.
a shadow meets me.
-David Gallipoli
