Untitled (I Wrote Your Name in the Sand)

By Amy Catherine Hulshoff

Wild Rivers, NM

September 9, 2017

To better inform my exploration into eco-sexuality and how a partnership with the environment become equally beneficial for myself, the environment, and my partners, I have started addressing the dirt and the earth directly in image making and in my writing.  Hiking has become a practice in looking and watching, and less about a destination and it has never been about collecting objects or vegetation. Any work I do is immediately taken down, erased, or the water will eventually erase it as it did for this piece- the image featured here. The expanding circles evolved from the previous crop circle in the rye field. They have taken on a Fibonacci form and will be the dirt’s namesake. What I mean by that is when I wanted to make a romantic gesture towards the earth I decided to write its name in the sand. However, in keeping with ideas of communication and consciousness outside of language I am moving towards a semasiagraphic type of lexicon.  So if the earth’s name were to have a logographic type of representation between it, my partners, and myself it would be these circles. The size and number of circles is determined by the space or surface on which the image is drawn.  I write love letters to my partner and today it began with, “Today I wrote your name in the sand.”