Wonder Valley artist Helena Bongartz has been creating Poplight in the vast dark desert night amid the salt flats near Amboy ongoing for two years. A constantly changing dual-video projection dances on a solitary and semi-abandoned cabin with digitally manipulated images arising from shards of plastic pop bottles. Thoroughly psychedelic.
Weekend nights, weather permitting; rain and high winds stop the show. About 45 miles east of Twentynine Palms on Amboy Road, north of Sheephole Pass on the dry lake. Bring a map, and if you hit the train tracks you’ve gone too far. Make sure your gas tank and water jug are full before you go. www.poplight.net
