western landscape

dried bones
the raven

not the verdant death

of the east

decay and maggots

elide “to cut off or suppress a vowel or syllable”
overlays Burroughs

La Grande Jatte and a California beach

elude
(elide elude words picked up reading Arts magazine) Arts p104

“The point at which landscape all but ceases to be a depiction of a specific or recognizable site and seems about to become a work of abstraction is one artistic territory that still appears to be rife with potential”

(something I can get in on instead of always being behind)