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1. The Electric Desert has died. Long live the Electric Desert!

   2020-04-29 21:16:08 UTC

   The Electric Desert as a super lo-fi collection of free and reclaimed materials is no more. What began as a vision/whim during “the Good Life” at Tortuga Gallery, summer 2018, went through NINE iterations in a variety of Albuquerque venues, and connected with hundreds of kids and grownups. Thank you…

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2. The Good Life: Electric Desert

   2018-08-16 16:41:00 UTC

   ABSTRACT The Electric Desert was a pop-up immersive installation at Tortuga Gallery on Saturday, 8/11/18. The piece consisted of four “saguaros” and a “prickly pear,” each made of large cardboard tubes, each painted with desert-inspired imagery, that were assembled improvisationally across that day, in preparation for a public event from…

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3. Electric Desert 8/11: EUREKA!

   2018-08-01 15:10:30 UTC

   As you may know from previous posts, I’ve long been excited by children’s architectural toys as methods for making large pop-up sculptures. As an example, last Halloween the Unicorn Collective wrestled mightily to makes sense of a Linx-based (image below) construction method using PVC pipe and the “octopi” Unicorn Arne…

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