Finding Suuda in the Desert

My time in the Valley of Fire, and Death Valley.

My relationship with the desert has always been a peculiar one. I am, by nature, a river-through-lush-forest kind of person, generally, that is. I am drawn to places where life overflows: where the air is moisturized, where the ground is soft underfoot, where everything grows, rots, and regenerates in an endless, tangled cycle. I am a gardener, after al…