Begrudgingly Elitistic

James Turrell (American, b.1943)

RODEN CRATER (from Overview)

“The Roden Crater is a cinder cone from an extinct volcano located in the Painted Desert region of northern Arizona, USA. The 400,000-year-old, 3-mile-wide (4.8 km) crater is the site of a land art project in progress. Artist James Turrell is transforming its inner cone into a massive naked-eye observatory designed specifically for viewing and experiencing skylight, solar and celestial phenomena.”

Comment: news reports in 2020 mentioned that Roden Crater may be opened to the public sometime around 2024-25, contingent on further funding.

- more info & images at the Roden Crater website

Now, the postman couldn’t see him from the front door, and I scribbled my signature and said, to my son, “You need to put some trousers on.”

My postman, very slowly, looked down at his trouser-clad legs with a mixture of confusion and horror, and then looked back up at me.

Paula Rego (Por. 1935-2022)

Vanitas (2006)