Brooks Benefiel Field Journal
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May 14th
2026

May 14th 2026, High on the mountain from the point of the view of Ayeds house is a story of me and my longing to explore even in the heat and from here sometimes I take pictures. But my exploring might limited until the winter and thats the fall and winter. The story sheet is the photo I took represents the story I've been telling the whole time this is a developmetnal front of the Sphinx and the story of how it became the story of Egypt and the Gift of the West. The story of choosing likes and dislikes of art. Here in this photo is a subtle idea but its not. They are discussing the direction of the face and which makes the most ideas of them to enter the future. The say the story of our heart here is good but lets change but the focus on the face is good now but lets change again this is telling a future of where they are at the focus now is the front of the face but the story its the direction they are seeing it. And now they are saying that the front looks good from the side and to devevlop this.

Field Journal Photo
Wadi Rum — Developmental Front
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May 8th
2026

May 8th 2026, The desert didn't mind me going through this ideology to find this but I don't think the desert cares. I found it just to find the story of myself. But I had already done it. Im going to take two walks here in the future one is to the mountain and two is to the door of my life to find the story I need to find. And that story is finding me right here in Wadi Rum there is so much art and rocks to look at the story me and the Bedouin here.

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Marks in
Stone

Each carved mark becomes a question. The page turns slowly through evidence, shadow, erosion, and memory.

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The Walking
Path

The trail becomes part of the archive. The ridge, the heat, and the distance all become part of the field record.

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People Who
Remain

The final page turns toward people, survival, settlement, and the names they left behind.

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