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(Not that I expect to be driving there in the dark!) Came home by way of a potash industrial plant, where the poles of water have been dyed turquoise to aid in evaporation. Totally disconcerting and Matt said, hard to find your back at night. A seemingly endless expanse of hard packed solid salt it was like driving on a sea of ice out towards a floating island.
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Then we drove to Bonneville Raceway, which is absolutely hallucinatory. There are also huge munitions storage bunkers–now, rumor has it, the local casinos store their paperwork there. A few broken doors hang from scaffolding in the middle of nowhere. There is target practice out here, too, and local law enforcement uses it to practice crime scenarios–like having to break down doors. Here CLUI has a remote residence–a quonset hut done in desert survival mode (bicycles with water containers to haul in supplies). The other artist, in residence, a photographer, arrived and Matt took us out into the military area south of town.
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Now, a few folks live in old barracks and historical preservationists are trying to reconstruct and save the buildings. By 1943 it was a military town of 23,000 people–training on 3/5 million acres of the surrounding desert. Matt of CLUI was here to orient me, and showed me around Wendover Airbase, started in 1940. Also, by the shoulder, numerous arrangements of beer bottles–circles, lines–obviously land art of a kind! West on 80, a pair of small caves that someone has fitted out with cardboard eyeballs.