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Kulübe Güncesi: Everett Ruess
Beni her zaman büyüleyen bu masalsı fotoğraf yirmi yaşında Utah'taki Davis Kanyonu'nda kaybolan ve bir daha haber alınamayan genç Everett Ruess'in. Bıraktığı son iz taşlara kazıdığı son ismi: Nemo. (Lat. Hiç kimse)
"Bir daha ne zaman medeniyete döneceğime gelecek olursak, bunun yakınlarda olacağını hiç sanmıyorum. Doğadan sıkılmış değilim; aksine tabiatın güzelliğinden ve sürdüğüm başıboş hayattan her geçen gün daha da keyif alıyorum. Bir ata semer vurmayı tramvaya binmeye, yıldızlarla bezenmiş açık bir gökyüzünü tepemde bir çatı olmasına, bilinmeze giden belirsiz, zorlu bir patikayı asfalt kaplı yollara, yabanda hayatın verdiği derin huzuru kentlerin tedirginliğine tercih ederim. Ait olduğumu hissettiğim ve kendimi etrafımdaki dünyayla bütün olarak algıladığım bir yerde yaşam sürdüğüm için beni suçlayabilir misin? Bana refakat edecek zeki varlıklardan yoksun olduğum doğru. Ama benim için gerçekten anlamlı olan şeyleri paylaşabildiğim o kadar az insan tanıdım ki, kendi içime çekilmem gerektiğini öğrendim. Bu güzellikle sarmalanmış olmak bana yetiyor... Senin dar tanımlamanla bile, yaşamak zorunda olduğun hayatın monotonluğuna, yavanlığına hiçbir şekilde dayanamayacağımı biliyorum. Asla durulmayacağım. Şimdiden hayatın derinliklerine dair fazlasıyla şey gördüm ve bundan bir adım geri atmaktansa, her şeyi yapabilirim. " ( 11 Kasım 1934 tarihli son mektubundan)
Everet Ruess için bak:
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"I kept my dream"
everett ruess
NEMO 1934
Everett Ruess'in Son Mektubu
Everett Ruess
of Utah and Arizona.
In November 1934, at age twenty, Everett disappeared from the canyon country near Escalante, Utah, and was never seen again. Although his burros were found hear his camp, his fate remains a mystery.
Everett Ruess at a Glance
Name
| Everett Ruess | |
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Birthday
| March 28, 1914 | |
Born
| Oakland, California | |
Father
| Christopher Ruess | |
Mother
| Stella Knight Ruess | |
Brother
| Waldo Ruess | |
Occupation
| Visual Artist | |
Media
| Woodblock, watercolor, drawing, oils, woodcarving, clay modeling | |
Famous Mentors
| Maynard Dixon, Dorothea Lange, Ansel Adams, Edward Weston | |
Transportation
| Donkeys, Horses; Jonathan and Nufalo | |
Pets
| Dog; Curly, on his solo journeys. At home, many: one of his first pets was a squirrel. Also cats, a horse and a very beloved dog, "Ginger Ruess". |
Home Town
| Los Angeles, California |
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High School
| Los Angeles High |
College Attended
| UCLA |
Number of
"Solo Journeys" | 4 |
Areas Explored
| Sierra Nevada, San Francisco, Northern Arizona, Southern Utah, Southwestern Colorado |
Hobbies
| Art, Poetry, exploring, animals |
Last Seen
| Davis Gulch Escalante, Utah |
Died
| Unknown, assumed 1934 |
Declared Dead
| 1964 |
Cause of Death
| Unknown |
Location of Death
| Unknown |
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Wherever poets, adventurers and wanderers of the Southwest gather, the story of Everett Ruess will be told. His name, like woodsmoke, conjures far horizons. Everett left Escalante, Utah, November 12, 1934 to write, paint and explore among a group of ancient Indian cliff dwellings. His last letter to his parents in Los Angeles explained that we would be unable to communicate for ten weeks. Alone with his paints, books and two burros, he disappeared into what is probably the most uninhabited, unvisited section of the United States. He never came back.
A sheepherder reported seeing him on November 19 near where Escalante creek flows into the Colorado. At first alarm of his prolonged absence, volunteers organized searching parties, combed the hills and canyons for days. Signal fires were built, guns fired. Indians and scouts sought water holes and signs of his passing. In Davis canyon Everett's two burros were located, contentedly grazing as if he had just left left them shortly to return. The, one after another, the searching parties returned without Everett.
True to his camping creed "When I go, I leave no trace," he vanished into thin air.
He was one of the earth's oddlings—one of the wandering few who deny restraint and scorn inhibition. His life was a quest for the new and fresh. Beauty was a dream. He pursued his dreams into desert solitudes—there with the singing wind to chant his final song.
Everett's quest began early—and ended early. As a child he turned from toys to explore color and rhyme. Woodcarving, clay modeling and sketching occupied his formative years in New York and near Chicago. From this early background grew his versatility in the arts—media through which he later interpreted the multihued desert.
At 12 Everett found his element—writing. He wrote inquiring essays, haunting verse; he began a literary diary. The diary matured into travel-worn, adventure-laden tomes. Wind and rain added marks to the penciled pages, scrawled by the light of many campfires.