Paul Sharits (1943-1993)

1. 1971-75

Summer 1966 Indians

Fall-sp 6-7

Sum 67 Denver?

Fall 67 baltim

Sum 68 aspen

Speeder

Fire/clouds juxta

In time

NOTES ON LANDSCAPE

Snakelike sun glares on winter Tirrehenn Sea on Amalfi coast

(this, I speech I is shot + in adding rephoto stage)

Now—fall 1980—that 1 am embarking on

-earth configs. Swami desert –diamond inst, L.A.

-Swamps Florida –volcano eruption Stromboli

                        -dune structs Sahara

Films from/of nature it

Seems approx. to issue these studies.

Known for highly perceptual “abs”, + wks in which film itself

And/or its mechanism/processes are visually-aurally-cognitively explored;

Occasionally, partic earthly wks, an interior landscape is expressed

(razor blades, T,C, G, E, S, COMP) but, aside from SSSSSS, I’ve issued no exterior landscapes. Nevertheless, I have attempted nature films, but always dissatisfied and waited to reshoot. As early as the mid-late 50’s 1 shot 8mm film sketches grass, trees, rain, etc: shot from the mid all destroyed. Then inward but, whole while

Living in aspen, sum. 1968,7?? prolonged immersion in the Rockies, the love salvation of my childhood in cole (when family left D and began ascent into into the mntns, I literally…