East Jesus

We made it to the middle of nowhere over New Years. Then we drove another twenty miles east.

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The Noah Purifoy Foundation, in Joshua Tree. Decades of sunbleached desert art. Though I can’t imagine two more dissimilar environs, it sort of reminds me of Opus 40 in Saugerties, NY. Both examples of a person with a singular, unfinished dream and decades to hash it out. One of the High Desert Test Sites.

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The Salton Sea and Palm Springs at sunset, as seen from Keys View, Joshua Tree National Park.

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Lauren and Joshua.

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Your best bet in Twentynine Palms.

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Salton Sea State Park. Yet another ecological disaster hiding in plain sight.

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Bombay Beach.

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Lauren is unimpressed by Salvation Mountain.

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East Jesus.

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Still Life With Tilapia.

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Salton City.