Mountain Beings
摘要
Traversing the landscape continued to be tedious and slow, with loose rocks rolling underfoot. Strange rock formations raised existentialist questions, giving rise to a general sense that the environment was “dead” and simultaneously vibrating with more-than-human life and consciousness. This contradiction felt like a significant characteristic of the land as it presented itself to us. But how can one “know” and describe such a landscape? Monotonous and exciting at the same time, the landscape was shapeless yet full of shapes, some familiar and others bizarre.