An unexpected gem in the desert

I have always loved pictures.
As a child, I cut them out of magazines and newspapers to put them in my own collection book, or on my walls. Especially portraits.
And I've always loved music.
In all forms.

Two music groups that have always followed me are Depeche Mode and U2, and those two led me to one of my favorite photographers, Anton Corbijn, and he planted a dream in me, of that one day put my feet down in the Mojave desert and Joshua Tree...
3 years ago I had a photo exhibition at Vashon Island, Seattle, and I saw my chance, called my dear friend Jeff in Los Angeles and asked him to PLEASE take me to Joshua tree, and he did!! We had only 1,5 day and I was early pregnant with the twins and feeling veeeery tired and sick all the time, but I loved every second! The park was sooo beautiful, and our B&B and the bars around it just so funky! BUT the thing that made the most impact on me, was something I didn't even know existed and that I surely would have missed if it wasn't for Jeff, The Noah Purifoy outdoor museum. Noah Purifoy was an extraordinary artist who lived 1917-2004, mostly in LA and at Joshua Tree. There, in the nothingness of the desert he has created the most fantastic things, buildings, installations, sculptures...all of used items. And it's so beautiful! Something that has no use, seems soo utile and right. And you feel that the world could not exist without it!
Just put it on your "places to visit before you die"-list, ok?