Title: Walking the Dinosaur
SRO #042, #043
Author: Smooth Ray
Size: 3x2”
Date: 2021 (image taken 2015)
Medium: Photography, watercolor staining, mounted on 140-pound cold pressed paper
Note: Back in 2015, Smooth Ray was somewhere near the middle of South Dakota when he saw this amazing sight: a child walking their pet dinosaur.
You see some strange things, when you’re on the road. The world looks different from the vantage point of motion. There is more space for serendipity, which depends on clear seeing—a hard task, when surrounded by the familiar.
Smooth Ray was doing about 90 on I-90 when he caught sight of the dinosaur on a leash. Foot on the brake even before the image fully registered … but it being Montana, turning around at the next exit meant a 30 mile detour. Nonetheless, absolutely worth it.
Statue is in a field near Murdo, S.D.
SRO #042 Was donated to a free art project hosted by Higher Self in Portland, Oregon. SRO #043 was left in a random location in Trumansburg, NY.
