Joel Daniel Phillips - Ourika Valley, Morocco (first edition)

Silkscreen print, edition of 50, signed and numbered by the artist, unframed Destination: Ourika Valley, Morocco Date: 8 - 15 June, 2019 Jaunt #056 approx. 27.5"h x 19.75"w, 70cm x 50cm   “One of the biggest reasons I chose Morocco for my trip was because the country was a closed book to me, and I wanted to experience an entirely new place without expectations coloring it. I spent much of my time on the road, driving from Marrakech to the actual Sahara desert to see the magical Erg Chigaga dunes. The sheer size and terrifying power of the landscape was one of the things that stuck with me the most. The sense of my own smallness and fragility in the face of endless sand and rock was breathtaking.  One night we stayed with a group of Beduin brothers in their campsite on the edge of the dunes. The campsite was located outside of a town called M'Hamid El Ghizlane, which is the literal end of the road before the expanse of the desert. The next day the we took a jeep 40 kilometers into the a