puniness

Working with a boxy aspect ratio and making expressive use of long shots that can turn travelers into specks, Palmason underscores the grandeur of this place and the puniness of those traversing it.

It was she who made us feel the breathless height of the structure and the relative puniness of the humans who had built it.

And yet, that very puniness gives the rock even greater meaning.

It’s a reminder of the puniness of our world when the earth shrugs.

But it does allow us to acknowledge the puniness of the intent along with the power of the symbol.