Catalog Description of 

RiverRun

Digital Edition

 

by
Michael Andrews

Running the San Juan River in Southern Utah, from Bluff through Eight Foot Rapids, Mexican Hat, Anasazi Ruins, The Goosenecks, Government Rapids,  Slickhorn Gulch, Grand Gulch, Steer Gulch, river rats, rafters, flash floods and finally, ending in Clay Hills at Lake Powell. 1976, the bicentennial, one year after the fall of Saigon, two escapees from the war in Vietnam

 

180, 9x12 inch pages of text integrated with 126 photographic elements and printed on 190 gram, Bright White Eclipse, a 100% rag, archival paper.  There are a total of 38 separate photographic pigment prints printed on 300 gram, Bright White Eclipse. Each print is numbered and signed by the author.

The edition is loose leaf in linen binding with the cover image in a recessed window.

There are three possible variations of this edition, depending on the number of photographic pigment prints.

The Complete Edition contains all 39 photographic pigment prints.

The Basic Edition contains only the 10 basic photographic pigment prints.

The Custom Edition contains the 10 basic photographic pigment prints plus any number of the 29 optional photographic pigment prints. The price starts at the Basic Edition price and is incremented for each additional print selected from the optional photographic prints.

 

The 10 basic photographic pigment prints are:

Castle Valley

Kettle

Rainbow, Red Cliff

Clouds Over The Rim, Goosenecks San Juan River 1976

Sand & Stones

Goosenecks #26

Blood River

Lizard On A Rock

Tracks In Sand

River Dwelling

 

The 29 optional photographic pigment prints are:

Sandstone Pool

Anasazi Ruin #10

Anasazi Ruin #4

Hands

Sandstone Butt

Rock Face

Sunset, San Juan

Sun Stones

Sandstone Pattern

Sand & Weeds

River’s Edge

Driftwood Cross, Poets Toes

Driftwood Burl

Alkaline Pool

Surgical Cut Of The River

Patterns Of Rock #2

Stone Patterns

Foot Print, Heron Print

Rick Stepping Toward The Sun

Mud, Cracked & Curling

Fate Of Stone

Evening Storm

Red Bird Of Paradise, Gray Rock Troll

Salmon Hole, Gray Granite

Stones Chattering

Flash Flood#1

Gnarled Juniper

Cracked Mud

Tracks In Mud

 

The slipcase is made of various woods and is lined with black lucite, with a clear lucite window revealing the cover image. The price varies according to the type of wood selected.

For pine, fir, redwood & cedar there is no additional charge.

For oak, maple & mahogany there is an additional charge of $50.00.

For rosewood, teak, walnut, padouk, cocobolo & cherry there is an additional charge of $100.00.

Individual prints are available in various sizes.

 

It is summer time, 1976. My brother Rick and I take a thirty day odyssey down a dying river. From Bluff, Utah to the Lake Powel graveyard, we wind our way through the canyons of the San Juan River in southern Utah.     As we drift from canyon to canyon in an 18 foot rowing dory, we are chased by storms, dreams of  perfect women and the ghosts of old river rats. I found wisdom in conversation with lizards, found Anasazi ruins and petroglyphs of hands, old shoes, a wallet with molding twenties, the sudden flashflood spitting from a side canyon, history marching by on a canyon wall. We found a kind of peace that can only come when there is nothing to do but wait for another sunset to paint the cliffs vermilion and gold.    

This journey confirms our sense of earth, in spite of my sorrow over the rape of women and men and the wilderness. Beyond the death of oceans and rivers and lakes, there is the death of cultures and of nature itself: nature as idea and myth in the collective mind of human kind.    

It is hard to imagine that a better dream could ever take its place.