Salt Dreams - Land & Water in Low-Down California Rockhounding California railroad lands

railroad lands

Part meditation

A well documented case study of how not to go about making policy

and how to avoid them - in California and Nevada

The author explores metaphysical questions of meaning as he tries to recapitulate the tales woven within the artwork

Salt Dreams - Land & Water in Low-Down California Rockhounding California railroad landsIn low places consequences collect, and in all North America you cannot get much lower than the Imperial Valley of southern California, where one town, 186 feet below sea level, calls itself the Lowest Down City in the Western Hemisphere, and where the waters of the Colorado River sustain a billion dollar agricultural industry. The consequences of that industry drain from the valley into the accidentally man made Salton Sea, California's largest lake