TITLE: Universal Desert

We live on a rocky world. Its surface supports our weight and allows us to move over, across, and around it. Geological processes, obligated by the universal laws of physics, wrench and thrash on a planetary scale to shape, destroy, and remake this surface and its constituent metals and minerals into irregular forms through great gravity, pressure, and heat. Other rocky worlds, neighbors though still alien, have, too, been molded by processes leading to uneven and unique topographical features, fashioned with familiar yet still strange landscapes. Sharing largely the same ingredients, equipped with wind whipped atmospheres and common elements forged from the same fire, our badlands are not unlike their badlands. When we understand the barren parts of our world, we understand, at least in part, a Universal Desert.

AUTHOR: Zac Henderson (United States)

Zac Henderson is an editorial and fine art photographer. He is inspired by science and nature, particularly that which exists outside our plane of experience. His personal work seeks to challenge and alter our perspectives of the planet, ourselves, and our place in the cosmos.

Originally from the Deep South, he travels full time with his wife and two dogs across the US in a self-converted camper van.