Whole Inn The Sky
Spend a day at 9,500 feet.
BeginBefore roads. Before deeds. Before language fixed meaning to ridge and valley.
Seventy acres along Coffee Pot Road in Garfield County, Colorado. The property is not isolated from wilderness. It is continuous with it.
At the center of the property stands a fourteen acre aspen grove.
What appears to be many trees may, in fact, function as a single organism.
The organism does not strive. It remains.
The sun was lowering toward the western mountains. A man stood at the canyon rim and watched the light shift.
Everyone else had gone home.
What does a place like this ask of the person who holds it?
Very little will stand here.
A geodesic dome for the night sky. Two yurts, round and light on the ground. What stands remains subordinate to what was here first.
Astronomy is not an added feature. It is the natural consequence of altitude and absence.
Follow the development. Occasional dispatches as the project takes shape.
Received.