ARCHES NATIONAL PARK
Where Rock Meets Sky
Nicky Leach
64 pages. Oversized 10”x13”
ISBN 1-58071-050-6
$9.95

This stunningly beautiful, oversized book is lavishly illustrated with breathtaking color imagery by America’s leading landscape photographers. In addition to the stunning photography, the book also includes detailed maps of the park and region and insightful, heartfelt narratives detailing the park’s natural and human histories.

It’s an unusually cool summer’s morning in Arches National Park. Heavy monsoon rains the day before have broken southeastern Utah’s unprecedented drought conditions and washed away the dust of the last six months. High clouds stipple the soft blue sky. To the east is 12,000-foot Mount Tukuhnikivats, one of the highest summits in the La Sal Mountains. Its name means “where the sun lingers” in the Ute language. I wonder what names native people had for the landmarks in Arches. Did they, like the Navajo, believe the rocks in their homeland were once alive?

A breath of wind exhales gently over the high desert of the Paradox Basin. Still moist from the rainstorm, the great rolling plateau of eroded Entrada Sandstone seems to glow from within. It is a vibrant artist’s palette: salmon, vermilion, ochre, buckskin. The colors of the desert.

Artists filter the natural world through the lens of their unique perceptions. Landscapes are never just landscapes but a human experience of what is there—as individual as a fingerprint. Nature is the artist here, though. Working in the medium of sandstone, using the twin chisels of water and flowing underground salt, she uplifts, collapses, sculpts, and molds. Landscape is a work-in-progress, a performance art piece that is never finished—therein lies its very perfection.

...Arches National Park is located on the spectacular 130,000-square-mile, mile-high physiographic province known as the Colorado Plateau, home to the greatest concentration of national and state parks, national forests, Bureau of Land Management lands, wilderness areas, and Indian reservations in the nation.

—From “Where Rock Meets Sky” by Nicky Leach

Where Rock Meets Sky
Nicky Leach
64 pages. Oversized 10”x13”
ISBN 1-58071-050-6
$9.95

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