Down a winding road off the main drag in Yucca Valley
is The Noah Purifoy Desert Art Museum.
On this unseasonably cool and windy day the blue sky provided
a brilliant backdrop for a cluster of clouds to slip across the landscape.
Blooming desert senna and creosote swayed.
So much life in this vast arid climate.
Crude structures, some spruced with a fresh coast of paint to welcome airbnb guests,
populate the terrain.
This unforgiving setting is home to many drawn to the light and space
and in need of a cheap place to live.
In the late 1980s it lassoed Purifoy, a pioneer of outdoor desert art.
A parcel of 10 acres of land outside of Joshua Tree
became his collaborator.
Over one hundred works of art, including large scale assemblages,
environmental sculptures and installations were created between '89 and '04.
Purifoy was interested in how the extreme desert climate
would transform his work.
The evolution of his art continues.
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