ENTRY DESCRIPTION
An image made at Salvation Mountain, a visionary folk art complex near Slab City, one of the many deserted outposts in the Southern California desert near the Salton Sea. So many textures and shades that it appears at first to be some type of abstraction, but it is a way into one of the many portals to be explored in this strange and iconic monument.

AUTHOR
Love of architecture was the impetus for picking up the camera in Chicago in the 1970s and 1980s. in 1991 I migrated west. to greater Los Angeles. Southern California is an insane multiverse of the unfinished, the grand, the decayed and the beautiful - using "beautiful" in the broadest sense imaginable. As an urban explorer, arts advocate and architecture fiend, I love to find images in the environment that startle, move and perplex me. Although I practice photocollage often, when a striking image sticks with me it is often a building, a tree or the conflation of open land and urbanscape. It can also be an accidental abstraction - something quite mundane that ends up looking like mid-20th century abstract expressionism; very satisfying when that happens.

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