On the Temple Road

There are many types of roads – both physical and beyond.... more

by Steve Henderson

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10.000 x 10.000 inches

Title

On the Temple Road

Artist

Steve Henderson

Medium

Painting - Oil On Panel

Description

There are many types of roads – both physical and beyond.

Some, like freeways, are designed to get us someplace quickly. One does not stop along these freeways, pulling to the side, getting out of the car, and setting up a picnic lunch.

Roads within towns also get us someplace, not quite so quickly, and again, we rarely stop to lay out a cloth and sit meditatively on the sidewalk.

There are country roads, service roads, cul de sac roads – at one time or another we find ourselves on them, again, with idea of reaching a particular destination.

And then there are the forgotten roads – often gravel or dirt, which at one time had a purpose and, once they were no longer needed, fell into disuse.

Such is the road shown in the artwork, On the Temple Road. Located in Zion National Park, Utah, this road is an offshoot of a service road leading out of the main park. Nominally kept up, it is pitted and grooved. Trees and bushes along the side creep their way inward, and water from many streams finds its way, as water does, across the roadway as it follows the dictates of gravity.

So one would say, as roads go, that this one is relatively useless. But it is not.

Following this road, one finds themself away from the crowds, the crowds that stay within the “official” park and limit themselves to trails that many, many other people are taking. And while those trails take visitors to beautiful places, roads such as that shown in On the Temple Road also take people to beautiful places, with the added bonus that those places are not busy.

Within a short time of walking, you are surrounded by rocky, craggy peaks – one of which is named West Temple, hence, the name of the painting. It is like being in an outdoor cathedral, one without roof – grand and glorious and majestic and breathtaking.

This road, which looks like it goes nowhere, goes someplace indeed.

(An artwork complementing On the Temple Road is Mountain of Spires, also on this site by Steve Henderson.)

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February 14th, 2020

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