Nachtmeer
Cornelia Pierce
Nearest Truth Editions
88 pages
9.5x12
Hardcover
Edition of 350
$70
A twilight journey into the desert’s liminal terrain.
Nachtmeer emerges from encounters in the Sonoran Desert, volcanic grounds, watering sites, nocturnal animals, and the architectures of plants and stone. These landscapes hold overlapping histories—geological, ecological, and human—that imprint themselves subtly onto the images, forming a continuum where time accumulates and dissolves simultaneously.
What begins as field observation transforms into a psychological terrain. Twilight softens the surface of the desert, revealing shifting correspondences rather than fixed forms, opening a threshold between the visible and the interior. The images become fields of correspondence in which memory, dream, and geology fold into one another. As the light fades, forms lose their solidity; what appears stable becomes porous and unsettled. The desert becomes a site of transformation, a zone where bodies, stones, and atmospheres slip into states of ambiguity.
The sequence unfolds like an inward passage, mirroring the desert’s dual nature: vast and enduring on the surface, yet layered with myth and symbolic depth beneath. Each frame offers a potential threshold into this layered world, where perception slows, deepens, and recalibrates.
