Glen Canyon Portfolio
Pg. 105 Print 44. Split cliff at river’ edge
by
Eliot Porter
Height: 11″
Width: 8.5″
Prints:
Medium: Lithograph on Kromkote paper
Pg. 105 Print 44. Split cliff at river’ edge
… Have any people on earth ever changed the face of their country as fast as we Americans? The Egyptians who made up in slave labor what we possess in bulldozers and power saws had nothing like our speed, and it took them more than a millennium to arrive at the desert which is theirs today…..
We do our gulfing in the name of progress; nothing must impede “the wheels of progress,” and nothing does. Today those wheels which have the light touch of a tank are being accelerated by the pressure of numbers…. Like lava from Etna, this pressure overflows the countryside, filling in meadows and marshes, felling the woodlands, forcing the brooks underground. Nothing is impregnable.- Edward Weeks
