Otherworldly

few months ago, I drove 30 minutes from my home in Indio to the shores of the Salton Sea to see an art installation. Thirty years ago…20 years ago…15 years ago…hell, 7 years ago, that sentence would have seemed absurd. No one went to the Salton Sea for anything, much less art. But as California’s great inland sea—and its most profound environmental mistake—has begun to die more rapidly, it has become ripe for metaphor. , it screams out, On this day, here existed, as part of the site-specific exhibition , an installation called , by the