Glen Wilson's 'Desert Totem' might help you find your own answers to life's most pressing questions — if you can track it down.
I met Elijah years ago. We were both fishing in the desert — him literally, me metaphorically as I whisked along the desert highway, with Parliament-Funkadelic’s “Mothership Connection” blaring in my car.
“Desert Totem” placed at one of several freeway on-ramps where drivers and pedestrians might catch glimpses the work set amidst other signage. Artist Glen Wilson says, “Like the freeway signs, which are a ubiquitous part of Southern California’s visual vernacular, I consider the gates part of the language of the urbanscape and fleeting collective memory. I wanted them to both blend with and disrupt the expectations of spaces characterized by the movement of departure and merger.
“Desert Totem ” sits where 25th Street East dead-ends into the Mojave Desert. The growth of communities like Lancaster and Palmdale, an hour and a half north of downtown Los Angeles, where the edges of L.A. County blend into the desert itself, are a part of the story about economic pressures, affordability, equity and the places where communities may reconstitute themselves.
These young bikers circled back to the spot where I was installing “Desert Totem .” We talked art, living in Lancaster, motorcycle maintenance and a missing gas cap. They blessed the totem with a pose and a gaze into the setting desert sun before tearing off after it.Lost in translation, found in the desert ... the sun wants its final word in the Mojave, until the moon rises to speak.’s multidisciplinary practice is comprised of photography, sculpture, filmmaking, installation and assemblage.
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