Weathered Structures Near the Salton Sea

A room left in the desert

At 5:33 PM, the first scene was a torn chair in front of a small structure reduced to its frame. A sign behind it still read POST NO BILLS.

A weathered chair and the remains of a wooden structure.

From farther away, the words POST MODERN appeared across the front. Most of the roof and walls were gone, but the open frame still held the shape of a doorway.

A small ruined structure marked POST MODERN.

Objects and open frames

Farther along, tires, buckets, fabric, and other discarded materials formed a roughly human shape. From the photographs alone, it is difficult to tell where debris ended and a deliberate installation began.

Tires and discarded materials assembled into a human-like form.

The empty metal structure divided the blue sky into a series of rectangles. Although it had no walls, it still worked like a frame that directed the view.

An empty metal structure framing rectangles of blue sky.

A collapsed wooden frame with mountains and utility poles behind it.

The entire sequence lasted about four minutes. Rather than a broad record of the Salton Sea, it was a short stop focused on old structures and objects in one area near the lake.