In my life there are two positions I occupy that can seem, at the same time commonplace and extraordinary: my place in a family as a father and husband, and my place in the universe. This dichotomy—the way that a moonrise or the birth of a child can be so very common and yet, feel […]
Author: David Shannon-Lier
PHOENIX PALMS (A RESPONSE)
I, too, noticed the palms on my commute from my home in Mesa to the University. I was struck by the romance of the images that Bryon made and by how very different my experience of the palms was. There are 596 (or so) palms on University Drive between my house and Arizona State. Here […]
FIELD GUIDE TO THE VALLEY (PHOENIX FLORA)
Field Guide to the Valley explores the contradictions that come with living in a large modern metropolitan area by documenting the species of plant life that are found in particular locales around the Valley. We are in the west, in the middle of Arizona and in the heart of the Sonoran Desert, yet so much […]