Thom Merrick 2004 This work is seen with an interpretive map and web site of Wonder Valley. Highlighted on the map is a twisted, jagged rock formation that I see daily on the way to my studio. The shape of the mountain looks like a beast, a dinosaur, or a great lizard. The rock stands as a reminder that creativity, a natural resource, and raw material, is best served by rude rock and the horrid graces of wilderness itself. "Where do these images come from that haunt the mind?" Do they burn in from nature, contrasting the sun, or drain away, outward to the land from social conditioning, or further back, our heritage. "And if this seems unintelligible, think of petrified dinosaurs, vast, frightening, prehistoric, but somehow ancestrally connected to our world."
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