Groovy Night Lights in the Desert

On a warm pre-spring, moonless night earlier this month, after a nice dinner with a couple of my Wonder Valley compadres, we drove east, then north east from Twentynine Palms, on North Amboy Road. My friends knew of an art installation by Helena Bongartz made up of projected lights onto the landscape as I understood it.

We came upon an isolated, abandoned house painted with an ever changing array of brilliant, multi-colored lights. The experience of the combination of the dark night, the warm breeze, the quiet and the light show was sublime.

Here are links to a profile of the installation and Helena Bongartz, and to her website poplight.net.

You can see the photos I took with the camera in my mobile phone here. I wish I had brought a better camera, but I will be back to visit this amazing site again.