Everywhere I go in the desert I see individual stones and stone formations resembling animals. Many look like dinosaurs, as in the image above in the Mojave. Others are more enigmatic — an example of which follows in the photograph below. There I see a stylized horse clearly; others perceive a lion’s head attached to a powerful body. Further valid imaginings exist I am sure. I have wondered if there is any explanation for these prevalent shapes beyond aberrations in human psychology. It seems that answer would take us beyond naturalism into the metaphysical, perhaps into a multi-dimensional world of Platonic forms, where the archetypal patterns revealed in animal bodies might have their existence.