ADOBE ROAD - II. MUD POETS

ADOBE ROAD

II. MUD POETS

NMX_7701_2010

2

ADOBE ROAD I. SIMPLY SANTA FE • II. MUD POETS • III. PARTLY CLOUDY IV. SHADOW DANCING • V. TAOS • VI. HAPPY TRAILS

Photographs by Roger Arvid Anderson I’m not one to deny destiny, but I took my time in getting to Santa Fe...

The American Southwest has it’s magic. Being born there is one thing, but coming from far away ... well, it’s the seductive power of legend. The temptation began early. First, I come from Minnesota where it’s cold and flat. I’m also not a one medium artist, so I am responsive to a variety of cultural as well as geological charms...My father was a jurist, but also a rock hound and a nature photographer. He gave me my first camera. He soon said I was a natural, which meant I had an eye for composition, But I also had an eye for the hunt, which came from hours scouring gravel pits for agates. Down the road, that agate proved to be Santa Fe...

I came close to getting there on any number of occasions... As a child our family vacationed in Georgetown, Colorado, which was an old mining town mired in the past... At that time we visited a gift shop in Colorado Springs and I had my father buy me a black-fired ceramic vase by Teresita Naranjo of the Santa Clara Pueblo. I had no idea she was a master potter. I was just a curious boy with an eye...After graduating from Dartmouth and Cambridge University in England, I moved to San Francisco in 1972. I lucked out and found an apartment on Russian Hill, with a view of the bay from a garden courtyard. Over 50 years later I’m still there... watching the boats and seasonal rainbows. I added painting and sculpture to my artistic ventures, and began casting bronzes in 19I also began flying across the country, and developed a window-seat eye for topography. In 1983 I started a series of topographic discs that I called Metaphysical Landscapes... Now landscape is a common theme in painting and photography, but not as much in sculpture... In my case I got the idea from Chinese jade mountains and scholar stones.

In October of 1987 the collector Mitchell Wolfson invited me to join his private train car tour of the Copper Canyon in Mexico. I met the train in San Antonio where we got a moonlight glimpse of the Alamo... We crossed Texas and then crossed into Mexico at El Paso... We visited the archaeological ruins of Casas Grandes, and later in Chihuahua city we visited the museum with its collection of Casas Grandes ceramics made by the Mogollon culture of the Southwest...

Mickey said my bronze discs reminded him of the Southwest landscape and he thought I’d appreciate the trip. I’d call it an immersion event... next stop Santa Fe...

Yet it still took awhile, but in 2007 Bay Area actor George Maguire, with family in Albuquerque, asked me to join him on a visit to New Mexico... That included a visit to the Acoma Pueblo with its breath-taking site... and a visit to Santa Fe. I was hooked... Ann Hosfeld of New Concept Gallery on Canyon Road invited me to show my bronze Trail Markers for a show in the autumn of 20Of course, my camera was at my side... and my hunt for visual agates began in earnest... have a look!

3

NMX_2297_2022

4

NMX_2797_2022

5

NMX_6547_2017

6

NMX_6227_2017

7

NMX_6730_2010

8

NMX_6731_2010

9

NMX_3383_2017

10

NMX_3385_2017

11

NMX_3666_2017

12

NMX_3679_2017

13

NMX_6483_2010

14

NMX_6488_2010

15

NMX_2205_2022

16

NMX_6888_2010

17

NMX_4468_2014

18

NMX_4172_2014

19

NMX_4147_2013

20

NMX_2672_2013

21

NMX_2367_2022

22

NMX_5227_2014

23

NMX_2511_2022

24

NMX_2534_2022

25

NMX_2482_2022

26

NMX_3147_2022

27

NMX_0307_2022

28

NMX_2124_2008

29

NMX_7733_2010

30

NMX_5898_2010

31

NMX_7725_2010

32

NMX_7724_2010

33

NMX_4691_2014

34

NMX_7738_2011

35

NMX_4694_2014

36

NMX_0574_2013

37

NMX_4737_2013

38

NMX_5728_2017

39

NMX_2475_2022

40

NMX_0018_2009

41

NMX_3495_2013

42

NMX_5438_2014

43

NMX_2195_2008

44

NMX_2336_2022

45

NMX_2174_2022

46

NMX_2260_2022

47

NMX_3952_2013

48

NMX_6749_2010

49

NMX_6894_2019

50

NMX_6713_2010

51

NMX_3304_2022

52

NMX_3640_2022

53

NMX_0697_2013

54

NMX_2944_2008

55

NMX_1804_2017

56

NMX_6763_2017

57

NMX_5209_2014

58

NMX_0569_2013

59

NMX_8282_2011

60

NMX_4332_2017

61

NMX_4725_2013

62

NMX_7876_2009

63

NMX_1922_2022

64

NMX_9290_2009

65

NMX_2701_2022

66

NMX_8062_2009

67

NMX_7189_2009

68

NMX_7265_2011

69

NMX_7361_2009

70

NMX_7416_2009

71

NMX_7034_2017

72

NMX_7066_2009

73

NMX_7578_2009

74

NMX_7625_2011

75

NMX_8935_2017

76

NMX_7487_2009

77

NMX_7691_2009

78

NMX_9162_2009

79

NMX_9294_2009

80

NMX_7805_2011

81

NMX_8804_2009

82

NMX_7786_2011

83

NMX_7891_2009

84

NMX_8830_2011

85

NMX_9227_2009

86

NMX_9247_2009

87

NMX_8145_2017

88

NMX_8336_2011

89

NMX_8370_2011

90

NMX_8379_2011

91

NMX_8381_2011

92

NMX_8394_2011

93

NMX_8386_2011

94

NMX_8588_2011

95

NMX_8606_2011

96

NMX_8602_2011

97

NMX_8584_2011

98

NMX_8628_2011

99

NMX_8761_2009

100

NMX_8510_2009

101

ADOBE ROAD I. SIMPLY SANTA FE • II. MUD POETS • III. PARTLY CLOUDY IV. SHADOW DANCING • V. TAOS • VI. HAPPY TRAILS Photographs by Roger Arvid Anderson Introductory text by Roger Arvid Anderson

Published by Roger Arvid Anderson www.RogerArvidAnderson.com www.RogerArvidBooks.com Roger Arvid Anderson 1048 Union Street #1, San Francisco, California 94133 © 2024 Roger Arvid Anderson All Rights Reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner without written permission of Roger Arvid Anderson, except brief portions in the context of reviews.

Editor: Roger Arvid Anderson • Book Design: Andreas Jones • Set in Times New Roman Library of Congress Cataloging In-Publication Data Anderson, Roger Arvid, 1946Adobe Road, II. Mud Poets / Roger Arvid Anderson ISBN: TK

Cover Image: NMX_5641_2017

102

NMX_8602_2011

103