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35. Along Floras Creek, Curry County, Oregon. Scientists at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s Goddard Space Flight Center . . . released photos . . . from 700 miles above the earth, show[ing] a pattern of clearcutting throughout the entire rain forest of the Northwest that is so extensive that the land looks perforated by a giant blast of buck-shot. . . . Ninety percent of the original Northwest forest is gone. Timothy Egan The New York Times, June 1992 From Turning Back, A Photographic Journal of Re-exploration
35. Along Floras Creek, Curry County, Oregon. Scientists at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s Goddard Space Flight Center . . . released photos . . . from 700 miles above the earth, show[ing] a pattern of clearcutting throughout the entire rain forest of the Northwest that is so extensive that the land looks perforated by a giant blast of buck-shot. . . . Ninety percent of the original Northwest forest is gone. Timothy Egan The New York Times, June 1992 From Turning Back, A Photographic Journal of Re-exploration

35. Along Floras Creek, Curry County, Oregon. Scientists at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s Goddard Space Flight Center . . . released photos . . . from 700 miles above the earth, show[ing] a pattern of clearcutting throughout the entire rain forest of the Northwest that is so extensive that the land looks perforated by a giant blast of buck-shot. . . . Ninety percent of the original Northwest forest is gone. Timothy Egan The New York Times, June 1992 From Turning Back, A Photographic Journal of Re-exploration

Artist (American, born 1937)
Date1999–2003
Period20th-21st century
MediumGelatin silver print on paper
DimensionsMat Size: 14 x 18 inches
Credit LinePurchase with funds provided by Kathy and Richard S. Fuld, Jr.
Object number2006.026.035
Curatorial DepartmentModern & Contemporary Art
_Place of OriginUnited States
34. Sitka spruce, Klootchy Creek Park, Clatsop County, Oregon. This 750-year-old tree, which is 206 feet tall and 56 feet in circumference, is the largest tree now standing in Oregon, though it is characteristic of many that used to stand in the original forest. In its presence we find stillness. And perhaps some anxiety: the attack on the tree that Julia Butterfly Hill risked her life to save is representative of a pathology now quite common in the Northwest. From Turning Back, A Photographic Journal of Re-exploration
34. Sitka spruce, Klootchy Creek Park, Clatsop County, Oregon. This 750-year-old tree, which is 206 feet tall and 56 feet in circumference, is the largest tree now standing in Oregon, though it is characteristic of many that used to stand in the original forest. In its presence we find stillness. And perhaps some anxiety: the attack on the tree that Julia Butterfly Hill risked her life to save is representative of a pathology now quite common in the Northwest. From Turning Back, A Photographic Journal of Re-exploration
Robert Adams
1999–2003
Object number: 2006.026.034
Image Not Available for 59. Clatsop County, Oregon. To be denied the original forest that stood here is to be orphaned, as children whose parents died in a war. In this situation we can never take comfort from the whole shape of the natural lives that bore us. John Szarkowski has written about how Eugene Atget’s photographs of old trees in France “describe the particular ways that trees articulate their forms, effloresce, bear fruit, grip the earth, claim space and light, and fail.” That testimony of completeness is destroyed by clearcutting, and with it an encouragement to wisdom and peace. From Turning Back, A Photographic Journal of Re-exploration
59. Clatsop County, Oregon. To be denied the original forest that stood here is to be orphaned, as children whose parents died in a war. In this situation we can never take comfort from the whole shape of the natural lives that bore us. John Szarkowski has written about how Eugene Atget’s photographs of old trees in France “describe the particular ways that trees articulate their forms, effloresce, bear fruit, grip the earth, claim space and light, and fail.” That testimony of completeness is destroyed by clearcutting, and with it an encouragement to wisdom and peace. From Turning Back, A Photographic Journal of Re-exploration
Robert Adams
1999–2003
Object number: 2006.026.059
60. Clatsop County, Oregon. To be denied the original forest that stood here is to be orphaned, as children whose parents died in a war. In this situation we can never take comfort from the whole shape of the natural lives that bore us. John Szarkowski has written about how Eugene Atget’s photographs of old trees in France “describe the particular ways that trees articulate their forms, effloresce, bear fruit, grip the earth, claim space and light, and fail.” That testimony of completeness is destroyed by clearcutting, and with it an encouragement to wisdom and peace. From Turning Back, A Photographic Journal of Re-exploration
60. Clatsop County, Oregon. To be denied the original forest that stood here is to be orphaned, as children whose parents died in a war. In this situation we can never take comfort from the whole shape of the natural lives that bore us. John Szarkowski has written about how Eugene Atget’s photographs of old trees in France “describe the particular ways that trees articulate their forms, effloresce, bear fruit, grip the earth, claim space and light, and fail.” That testimony of completeness is destroyed by clearcutting, and with it an encouragement to wisdom and peace. From Turning Back, A Photographic Journal of Re-exploration
Robert Adams
1999–2003
Object number: 2006.026.060
Image Not Available for The Kogaluk River, view to the northwest taken during the ascent of the High Portage, interior Labrador
The Kogaluk River, view to the northwest taken during the ascent of the High Portage, interior Labrador
William Brooks Cabot
1910
Object number: 1997.035.07
Image Not Available for Caught up in Space
Caught up in Space
Richard Wagner
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West Wall, The Ted Pella Company, Space W 109, The Esplanade V, 3001 Redhill Costa Mesa
West Wall, The Ted Pella Company, Space W 109, The Esplanade V, 3001 Redhill Costa Mesa
Lewis Baltz
1975
Object number: 2008.033
Space Mechanism
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Arthur K. D. Healy
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This Space Reserved
This Space Reserved
Cal (Lee) Kowal
1979
Object number: 1984.011
Image Not Available for Further Thoughts (1967), interview by Merce Cunningham and Space, Time and Dance (1952), by Merce Cunningham from Aspen, The Magazine in a Box, The Minimalism Issue, no. 5 + 6
Further Thoughts (1967), interview by Merce Cunningham and Space, Time and Dance (1952), by Merce Cunningham from Aspen, The Magazine in a Box, The Minimalism Issue, no. 5 + 6
Brian O’Doherty
1967
Object number: 2015.239.08
Nommo Semi (The Guardian of Space) from the series Infinite Essence
Nommo Semi (The Guardian of Space) from the series Infinite Essence
Mikael Chukwuma Owunna
2018
Object number: 2021.006
Space in Between – Nopal (Rosa E De Los Santos)
Space in Between – Nopal (Rosa E De Los Santos)
Margarita Cabrera
2016
Object number: 2023.005
on the lower frequencies i speak 4 u (sacred alchemy, reclaiming spaces)
on the lower frequencies i speak 4 u (sacred alchemy, reclaiming spaces)
William Cordova
2019
Object number: 2024.007