Sierra County Recreation and Tourism

Sierra County New Mexico

Sierra County Recreation and Tourism

Sierra County New Mexico

Sierra County Recreation and Tourism

Sierra County
New Mexico

downtown Truth or Consequences NM

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Desert Archaic

accessories, art, jewelry

324 Broadway Street, Truth or Consequences

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Hours: 10am-5pm Fri-Sat-Sun

Original work by Kyle Cunningham, Naomi Sparrow, Jeannie Ortiz, Andrew Potter, Reed Rische, with occasional special guests and occasional live music.

#desertarchaic

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Nov 26

Ancient rock shelter with petroglyphs🌀and cupules.
#desertarchaic #Serrano #Cahuilla #mojave #chemehuevi #indigenous #petroglyphs #petroglifos #adventure #petroglifo #rockart #ritual #ancestors #ancient #losthistory #nativeamericanhistory #cupules #pictographs #hiking #primitive #indigena #aboriginal #leavenotrace #arterupestre #pinturarupestre #joshuatree

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Jan 8

Here at one of the few practical crossings of the Colorado River, someone painted the rocks where travelers were likely to see it, possibly thousands of years before our time. The age of rock art is difficult to gauge, because it’s usually made with mineral pigments or carved into the desert varnish, neither of which are conducive to measuring radioactive decay the way we can determine the age of organic material. Context clues help, like being able to attach a style of art to a specific culture that also left organic materials that can be dated, or how rock art in Utah depicting people riding horses would not be older than the 17th century introduction of horses by the Spanish to Ute and Navajo cultures. These pictographs overlooking Courthouse Wash are made in a style called Barrier Canyon Style (BCS; the most famous example is in Horseshoe Canyon, which was called Barrier Canyon at the time), which some scientists believe to include some of the oldest surviving rock art in Utah. The estimated span of time in which BCS was in use is vast though, ranging as far back as 6925 BC to as recent as 700 AD, a span of time that alone is more than twice as long as the one between us and the First Dynasty of ancient Egypt.
Of course, we have no modern knowledge as to what these figures meant to the people who made them. It’s not probable, but it might be possible that the vandal was in fact a traveler through time who had gone back however many thousands of years ago it was and learned that the panel was a Desert Archaic culture’s way of honoring xenophobia, slavery or pedophilia, or that it said something like “Hitler did nothing wrong,” then traveled back to 1980 to destroy this monument to the worst of humanity. We just don’t know.

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Jan 4

FaceTiming from inside the artwork of kyleparkercunningham
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#art #artist #artistsofinstagram #2020 #paint #painting #facetime #stayhome #staysafe #pointofview #stayconnected #artwork #screenshot #insidetheartiststudio #insidetheart #kylecunningham #kyleparkercunningham #newmexico #newmexicoartist #newmexicoart #truthorconsequences #torc #truthorconsequencesnm #desertarchaic #supportart #supportartists #buyart #artistic #blackandwhite #light

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Jan 17

You never know what you might find amongst Utah farm lands! Thousands of years ago these lands where once inhibited by the Desert Archaic People who hunted animals and gathered plants near water sources. They left us their art work. Treasures to me. I never get sick of pondering what each piece might have meant. Archeologists suggest these petroglyphs at this site represents the Great Basin Cutvilinear style that may be thousands of years old!

#rockart #petroglyphs #sacredsites #archeology #treasurehunting #myhappyplace #leavenotrace #takeonlypictures #utahartist #desertarchaic #nativeamerican #utahunique #roadtrippin #goneexploring #dogswhohike #dogsofinstagram #rescuedog #wildernessdog #wildernessculture #lavarock #utahhistory

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Dec 23

Five Oil Cans. I’ve painted numerous of these old oily oil cans in my life. I have this tender spot for these relics from a different time - they take me back to the magic which was my grandfathers wood shop, where we would tinker for hours on nothing smelling that scent of saw dust and lawn mower and oiled junk. I learned how to make things with him in that space, by taking apart and reassembling anything he would let me, using whatever tool I saw fit no matter how much misuse the tool saw. These oil cans take me to that world of unbound exploration, curiosity and the ideal that anything is possible. Acrylic & Oil on found wood. I use acrylic to block in the first layer and then oil on top of this, otherwise the oil sinks into the wood too much, annoying to paint and a weak paint film. Tech tip for the day.

#truthorconsequences #nm #painting #oilpainting #santaferailyardistrict #fringedwellersworldwide #contemporaryartcurator #artcurator #artcollector #artexhibition #muse #artforall #supportartists #contemporaryart #artgallery #modernancient #desertarchaic #dubstep #juxtapoz #grandpa #oilcans #woodshop #tinkering #nostalgia

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Oct 3

Entering New Mexico for the first time - April 2010 - at around mile 400 of the Grand Enchantment Trail. Tired and ready to rest until dawn so we could begin the long hike towards the crest of the Mogollon rim crest. We hiked late into the night this particular day as we had crossed a mountain range since breakfast and spent the evening descending thousands of feet of boulder strewn ridglines which finally gave way to miles and miles of cobblestone mesas. A jumbled mess of earth totally inappropriate for slumber. Shortly after this photo we at long last encountered a tolerably flat spot just big enough for the tent and slept right there without hesitation in the middle of the road.

Sometimes the only option is to carry on until conditions become favorable; they always eventually do.

I’m working on Jeannie and I’s first book of art and photography - doing some deep dives in our photographic archives.

Amazing the great memories I’ve made with bluecornloom

You can preorder this book via the link in my bio. Think of this book as an intimate art exhibition and a creative experiment in how to share stories in a tangible way during this time of COVID.

#adventure #truthorconsequences #thruhiking #grandenchantmenttrail #nmtrue #nm #desertarchaic #thesharpend #life #desert #gila #bordercrossing

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Jan 28

Origami Beetroot. Stashing away snacks for a rainy day (super disaster for thin origami paper). Or maybe laying waist to hectares of over fertilized poison big agriculture soy bean junk. Just a thought. Somehow even a paper crane will win against petrochemical fertilizers on a long enough timeline.

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>intaglio drypoint print
>hand colored with watercolor
>approximately 8 inches X 10 inches

#truthorconsequences #nm #painting #oilpainting #fringedwellersworldwide #contemporaryartcurator #artcurator #artcollector #artexhibition #artforall #supportartists #contemporaryart #artgallery #modernancient #desertarchaic #dubstep #juxtapoz #nature #extinctionrebellion #climate #future #nomads #intaglio #drypoint #printmaking # etching #origami #sandhillcrane #beetroot #bosquedelapache

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Jan 28

I hope this doesn’t mean that I’m going to have broken short pieces of lead soon as that is the worst in mechanical pencils. Oops I was in the zone and pulled the erasure off thinking it was the cap. Happy to be drawing again it’s been a while in the world of painting. +

>rotring 600 pencil
>hb lead

#truthorconsequences #nm #drawing #hb #lead #rotring #fringedwellersworldwide #contemporaryartcurator #artcurator #artcollector #artexhibition #muse #artforall #supportartists #contemporaryart #artgallery #modernancient #desertarchaic #dubstep #juxtapoz #nature #extinctionrebellion #climate #future #nomads #intaglio #drypoint #printmaking #etching

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Dec 26

Our Moon. Oil on 24kt gold leaf.

#painting #oilpainting #rhino #armfauna #modernancient #cargocult #truthorconsequences #nm #fringedwellersworldwide #contemporaryart #contemporarypainting #contemporaryartcurator #artcurator #artcollector #juxtapoz #streetart #dubstep #desertarchaic #nature #earth #climatechange #moon #lunar #solstice #time

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Jan 25

Origami Atomic Bomber.

Raider from the future and secret assassin sent by mischievous scheming trees to overthrow the mundane and banal. This paper crane means business mind you so you best take some time to enjoy the flora and insects and tiny fauna you encounter today.

>Oil on Panel
>8 inches x 8 inches

#truthorconsequences #nm #painting #oilpainting #fringedwellersworldwide #contemporaryartcurator #artcurator #artcollector #artexhibition #muse #artforall #supportartists #contemporaryart #artgallery #modernancient #desertarchaic #dubstep #juxtapoz #nature #extinctionrebellion #climate #future #nomads #oragami #atomic #bomb

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Nov 18

New adornment for fall 2020 polished up to bring some sparkle into the rest of the year. All of these are sterling silver hand forged by myself. Twisted layered tortured creations for this complex world; I finally feel as though my adornment is speaking the language of art.

All this work is available in Desert Archaic online use the link in the bio.

#nm #truthorconsequences #nmtrue #nmsrtist #taos #santafe #desertarchaic #modernancient #contemporaryart #jewlery #adornment #dubstep #nyc #la #juxtapoz #time #sterlingsilver #silver #bangles #rings #cuffs

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Sep 25

Hello world. I took a long break from these interwebs this summer because the digital just got to be too much. I went rock climbing instead; singularily focused on decisive moves going up.

Climbing and art are parallels for me - they are the two times when my mind goes blank and I just am. In both disciplines you have to constantly make choices which you can never return from - do I use this color or leave that line, do I shift my weight to this foot or do I use that hand hold. There is no middle ground, you make a choice and you move forward, onwards, upwards, beyond, owning that choice totally yet forgetting it instantly when presented with the next fork in the plan.

If I were a better person I’d be a meditator, quietly contorting my mind into peace. But here I am, age 37 going on 38 and I’m not that person, not one to sit quietly and see nothing.

My way is to throw myself into the thick of it before I have a chance to even think about it, then to watch my mind struggle in it’s new found status, eliminate all which does not matter and solve the problem at hand. Be it painting or a hard core adventure like climbing it’s the same motion in my mind, make a decision, go with it, make another decision, until you are done or reach the top, admire the view for a minute, do it again.

I hope you’ve all had a great summer, it’s been long and hot and fraught. But if we are honest rising up to the test and overcoming it is certainly not boring, and we sure have a test on our hands right now - I hope you all took the challenge.

#vedauwoo #climbing #tradalchemy #life #art #dubstep #punk #tradisrad #totem #trad #nmtrue #truthorconsequences #nm #desertarchaic #alpinist #contemporaryart #modernancient #kyleparkercunningham #poetry #philosophy

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Dec 24

I’ve been adding to some of my older paintings in the last month l, upgrading them with new brushstrokes and paint application which I’ve learned in the last couple of years. I’ve been hesitant to do this until now because I didn’t want to erase my history of painting. I’ve found that was a misplaced worry and am actually extremely fond of this new conversation I’ve been having with my older self. I’m constantly growing as a painter and some of these older ideas benefit greatly from where I’m at now with the brush. Plus there is plenty of my work out in the world to hold down my painting history. So hear is to constantly evolving, growing and learning in this life.
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This painting is from my “Arm Fauna” series which imagined a future where humans technology had been disiminated throughout the kingdom of life on earth. In this case the rhino had a radar antenna used to guide rockets towed by an elephant. This is all a grand metaphors for the resilience of nature in the face of anthropogenic assault, we might win some wars but nature will somehow get the upper hand - for example with biological warfare, aka COVID-19.

#painting #oilpainting #rhino #armfauna #modernancient #cargocult #truthorconsequences #nm #fringedwellersworldwide #contemporaryart #contemporarypainting #contemporaryartcurator #artcurator #artcollector #juxtapoz #streetart #dubstep #desertarchaic #nature #earth #climatechange

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Mar 22

Somewhere out there in the ocean an octopus saves a little tree pulling it miles over the ocean to secret sea creature island hiding spots. The tree was carefully transplanted onto a raft like floaty bit, the upmost care was given to preserve even the most fragile of roots.

Said octopus elegently grabs a hold with one arm and does the alien worm drive swim over the horizon to those few spots humans cannot find and replants, oh so lovingly.

This whole idea is absurd, I know, but so to is so much of what we humans do.

This one though really is making a fast getaway with that sweet little tree.

#truthorconsequences #nm #painting #oilpainting #fringedwellersworldwide #contemporaryartcurator #artcurator #artcollector #artexhibition #muse #artforall #supportartists #contemporaryart #artgallery #modernancient #desertarchaic #dubstep #juxtapoz #nature #extinctionrebellion #climate #future #nomads #octopus #tree #nature

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Jan 20

New day; Old theme.

>the very first beginnings, just barely there but for some charcoal scratch marks and a few blobs of cadmium yellow but even with that the whole painting is realized.

>sometimes they fall from the sky.

> #truthorconsequences #nm #painting #oilpainting #santaferailyardistrict #fringedwellersworldwide #contemporaryartcurator #artcurator #artcollector #artexhibition #muse #artforall #supportartists #contemporaryart #artgallery #modernancient #desertarchaic #dubstep #juxtapoz

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