Cropped Will Cardini artwork

August 19th, 2009

Road Trippin’: Turquoise Trail

Filed under: Inspiration — Tags: , — William Cardini @ 11:34 am

I saw this awesome pyramidal structure on the Turquoise Trail that runs through the mountains between Albuquerque and Santa Fe:

I had lunch with my Land Arts professor at UNM and he told me that it’s the house of someone who’s really into crystals and ley lines. Speaking of crystals, I got this gem at the Tinkertown Museum gift shop (a fascinating place to stop by if y’all ever get the chance):

According to my father, who’s a geophysicist, that rock is a slice of agate, which is, aptly, an aggregate of crystals that have grown together. Agates are usually clear, but this one has been stained pink. I was hoping that the pink was natural, but oh well, in my world that crystal mass is the third eye of the skull on my shirt.

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