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Sky Village Swap Meet in Yucca Valley is a world of its own, a dense shanty-like town of booths and stands packed with curios, desert junk, overgrown cactus gardens, and bright green palo verde trees. The former drive-in loud speakers broadcast a soundtrack of country music, periodically punctuated by announcements that someone's burritos or french fries are ready for pickup at the cafe.

Sam and Dash will be coloring fabric with hand-made natural dyes and placing them at a specific locale in Joshua Tree. Sam's pieces will be exposed to the elements above ground in the sun and wind, while Dash's fabric will be buried beneath and encounter the subterranean environment. Both pieces will absorb the region–sun or darkness, moisture and heat, soil and air–and display these uniquely upon retrieval and unearthing. Together their representation of Joshua Tree will uncover the toll of linear time passed in this specific geographical location.

“I wanted to bring a gospel choir to Art Queen. Like the collage works I like to make, I think this will be a wonderful combination of the unexpected, the found, the kind of surprises I dream of finding when I am out on a road trip.”

The High-Desert Peace Pipe has circulated in the Morongo Basin at sporadic intervals since 1976. Founded by ex-Marine Ron Fonstadt, the paper has been one of the important counter-cultural voices of the region. The Llano Del Rio Collective has collected some of its favorite articles from the Peace Pipe’s archive in the Yucca Valley Library.

RISE is a work with both sculptural and situational components.  A simulated artificial moon will be built in the desert where it can interact with the stars and moon in the night sky.  A large disk will be elevated by a twenty-foot pole mounted to a wood and steel structure built on the side of the highway.  The disk will serve as a screen for a photographic projection of an image of the full moon.  While the sun sets in the evening the projected image will become visible just before a waning moon begins to rise in the sky to the east.  Once the sky has grown compl

Here There, There Here is a line of fabric two miles long rolled across the surface of a dry lakebed punctured by triangular volumes of changing dimensions. The piece invites participants to engage with the changing sightlines and scale as they walk from one place to another, pausing at the shapes and then coming back again—actions performed once and then reversed.

For Dr. Louis Hirshkowitz

The mystery of the Plutonic macro-basalt bloom has been around since humans first discovered them on the high desert floor. They are represented in the petroglyphs near the Salton Sea dating back over 9,000 years and, they have been studied by scientists since the birth of geology.