Watchful Seers

Occasionally, lacing the New Mexican landscape are monolithic power towers resembling skeletal, shamanic robots. Perhaps you’ve seen this style in other states, too. Across arid, deserty backdrops, they definitely stick out — kind of like native spirits rising in electric glory out of the sagebrush.

To me, they are like spirit guides incarnating as power towers. I know, they are made of steal and all that electrical stuff, but they could be totems just the same. Maybe, just maybe, your power is where you feel it, always there, watching the land while you sleep. Isn’t that comforting?

Power towers at night in New Mexico