June 28th, 2010 From the Faraway Nearby: How a Camel Came to SpiceLines
An old photo of a Moroccan camel, a new card for SpiceLines: Bringing the faraway, nearby. “I have used these things to say what is to me the wideness and wonder of the world as I live in it.” Georgia O’Keefe , www.newmexicohistory.org The artist Georgia O’Keefe walked alone in the desert, collecting bleached bones of animals that later found their way into her paintings. Her most famous canvas, From the Faraway, Nearby , depicted an elk skull suspended in a big sky over low hills—a magical found object imbued with all the wonder of the wide, wide world.
