BASURA II

Sometimes painfully obvious, sometimes leaching into the landscape, litter is everywhere. Mindlessly tossed. Forgotten. Deliberately placed. This is the second part to a project I started in October, 2011 http://christinalange.com/basura.html. This time, the trip was from Salton City, CA through the Mojave, to South-Eastern Utah to the Great Basin, Nevada via Idaho Darby, Montana. Pack it in, pack it out?

On Neighbourhood Watch

The following images are taken in the neighbourhood in Salton City on a full moon night. It ended up being cloudy, so couldn't see much of the moon... so I focused on what surrounded me on the ground level. One of the neighbours has a flourescent light in his front garden which colours the rest of the neighbourhood in this greenish tint.....

 

 

Desert Public Art, Southern California

Images taken from public art in the desert of Southern California, including Ricardo Breceda's metal sculptures in the Galleta Meadows Estate in Borrego Springs, Leonard Knight's Salvation Mountain, Niland, the Slab City's Water Towers, Niland and Frank Antone Martin's Desert Christ, Yucca Valley.

Links:

http://www.desertchristpark.org/

http://www.galletameadows.com/

http://www.salvationmountain.us/

Couldn't find too much information on the two Water Towers but here is a link:
http://lastadventurer.com/last-adventurers-fieldnotes/tag/slab-city



Galleta Meadows Estate: by Borrego Springs. Artist: Ricardo Breceda

























Leonard Knight, Salvation Mountain, Niland


















Slab City Water Towers, "Wheel of Karma" and another wheel, which has no name, but in the words of the 'Last Adventurer', the "Wheel of War"















Desert Christ, Yucca Valley
As envisioned by Eddie Garver, and put together by Sculptor Frank Antone Martin, dedicated in 1951