Author: Zack Ramey
Do We Only See What We Know? | Road Trip 10
Stirrings of a 3rd Album & Sketchbook Doodle | Road Trip 9
Some Advice For How to Handle Quicksand & Drawing Devil’s Tower | Road Trip 8
Rethinking Love & Materiality | Road Trip 7
Someone at the Door | Road Trip 6
Girl Draws the Badlands, Boy Writes a Tune | Road Trip 5
After being educated in the geology of the Badlands, the traveler is tasked with something peculiar: to make what one sees match what one knows. The various sedimentary layers are color coded for when they were formed. White indicates about 30 million years ago; red indicates about 32 million years ago; grey and yellow about 35; black about 72.
If reconciling such time in a single glance weren’t hard enough, then you find out that we’ve found fossils from alligators and three-toed horses in these fossilized soils. The horse didn’t have a hoof then because three toes did a better job in its environment, which was lush and muddy, i.e., a subtropical rainforest!