July HIDDEN LAKE (VII.17.2011), Eagle Cap Wilderness, Oregon [ click photo for next . . . ]
July HIDDEN LAKE (VII.17.2011), Eagle Cap Wilderness, Oregon [ click photo for next . . . ]
The image above was made after the snowy winter
of 2011, snow which lingered above 2000 m. well into July.
I spend a lot of time in domes, or geodesic tents. I can
remember getting my very first little blue one years ago.
During storms, I've had plenty of time to admire the elegant
curves of their geometry, and their amazing flexibility and
strength. I've come to enjoy this kind of close-to-the-ground
life style, without beds, and, tables, and chairs. So much so,
in fact, that as I venture back to the lowlands, I find it hard
to believe the box-like square structures that have come to stand
for the economy of comfort and style in industrial Western
culture. Indeed, it seems like we all now live in beige boxes,
go to work and sit all day in front of beige boxes, and most
likely will be buried in one, too. Very odd.Below is a long-line sonnet, a kind of love song, or song
of praise, to the humble geodesic . . . DOME . . . It is, of course,
dedicated to the deeply resonant legacy of the great
R. Buckminster Fuller.
On the road in the American Northwest.
You know
your composition
has achieved a certain integrity
when changing but a single part
means you must go back
and retune
the whole.
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DOME--a long-line sonnet, for Bucky Fuller...Where invention and discovery meet, there, we have
Inspired design. The strength of simplicity, structure
Weighing less than the air inside, the dome gives us
A new geometry of hope, where less is more means muchMore for those who have nothing at all, means giving back
To Earth's future, means giving back mindless waste
As great promise. The dome's lone antagonist is the Imperial
Culture of the Square, with its straight roads dividingThe obscene green carpets of the Great Suburban Nowhere,
"Nowhere for my square chair, my square table, my square TV,
Nowhere for my square speakers to play my o so square music."A new spirit of the tension-compression dome is now upon us,
O great change of heart, following curve, from outside in,
As a rainbow follows the most devastating of storms.
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