Sand Gallery

In the David Lean film, Lawrence of Arabia was asked: “What is it, Major Lawrence, that attracts you personally to the desert?”

He replies: “It’s clean.” That line of dialogue has stayed with me many years, but I have wondered exactly what it means. I always looked at deserts as sandy, but perhaps he was talking about their psychic space.

My reactions:
The desert is spacious.
The desert is desolate and lonely.
The desert can scare the hell out of me.
The desert can astound me with its abstract and sensual forms.