Yesterday at on a visit to El Mirage – this time via airplane – passed over the site of Intervention E.
DEHSART was featured in the Fall 2013 edition of the City of Palmdale’s news magazine program, Backdrop Palmdale, which airs every day on Palmdale Channel 27 on Time Warner Cable. Standing on site near Intervention A, we talked with Benjamin Lucha from Palmdale Public Works about the DEHSART project, re-framing […]
Backdrop Palmdale Fall 2013 brings sight to the environmental issues ...
Intervention D by a landslide! Thank you to everyone who participated. We’re off to the editing room to feature this slogan in our PSA.
The Votes have been counted! And the winner is…….
Did you vote yet? Discarding your broken camper in the desert equals fines of up to $3000. RVs and boats abound abandoned in our valley. These complex items can be a valuable tax deductible donation and can be restored or recycled into useful transport by charities.dbw.ca.gov. Action Donation in Southern […]
Intervention E – Vehicular Vistas
Vote for your favorite poster! Beautiful Barrel Springs and Joshua Ranch Trails were brought to our attention by many Palmdale residents as a site of investigation. Along the miles of paved and unpaved roads there are multiple areas of household trash, construction debris and green waste. The irony of […]
Intervention D – Construction Junction
Bulky items, those which can’t fit in a cart or weigh more than 100 pounds can be hauled away by appointment with a waste management service. The large fiberglass pieces we found were repurposed almost immediately by resourceful skateboarders looking to create a skate park of their own.
Intervention C – Bulky Item Re-Use
Let’s take a closer look at some of the discarded materials found at site B. Tires have a recyclable value as synthetic mulch for playgrounds As foundation structures for earthships http://earthship.com/ Greenwaste, yardwaste or landscaping cuttings can easily be used as firewood, compost material, garden fencing or plant support structures, […]
Intervention B – Tired of Yardwaste
DEHSART illuminates the material extent of illegal dumping, educates about environmental responsibility and re-frames refuse as a creative resource. Our first monument utilizes the abandoned items from a household. Please vote for your favorite message here, on our Facebook page, or in person at the AV Fair. Homestead members […]
Intervention A – Household Responsibility
Jennifer from JCPenney® MEOW. Jennifer from JCPenney® has a special way of communicating via animals and sound combining art with symbols that transcend the boundaries of time, culture and dimension. With her special interest in the Antelope Valley aerospace industry, she transmits messages and travels here often to report on […]
From Space with Love,
The Forêt Intérieure/Interior Forest is a drawing of a forest, a shared dream. Based on an ongoing exchange with the iconic French author, poet, playwright and philosopher Hélène Cixous, Los Angeles-based artist Alexandra Grant’s multi-faceted project Forêt Intérieure/Interior Forest—encompassing a series of public drawing sessions, reading groups, artist collaborations and an installation at […]
Forêt Intérieure/interior forest
Guest artist Kenny King. My first experience to the High Desert was in the mid 1970s with my mom & dad, and I wondered why someone would live here. A couple years later we moved to Desert View Highlands, west side of Palmdale. At the time it was small town […]
Progress?
Vote for entry #26! DEHSART created a “Report Illegal Dumping” jersey design for the City of Palmdale’s Race to Art challenge in conjunction with the Stage 3 start of the eight-day Amgen Tour of California–America’s largest international professional cycling race. The jersey was made using an artistic textile technique that uses […]
Amgen Race to Art Jersey
The Antelope Valley Illegal Dumping Task Force invited Joel Greene and his team from Curiosity Quest Goes Green to investigate and intervene at trashed sites all over the area for future broadcast on the popular PBS show. DEHSART tagged along for the whirlwind and windy day of shooting. A fun […]
Curiosity Quest comes to the AV
After finding a carcass and plenty of other bones in our trash scouts the silent issue of illegally dumped and abandoned animals plagues our desert. The issue generated some alarming testimonies on our facebook page. Readers reported finding horses tied to trees and two calves tied together and left to […]
Illegally Dumped Animals!?
DOMESTIC 1a: living near or about human habitations 1b: tame, domesticated 2: of, relating to, or originating within a country and especially one’s own country 3: of or relating to the household or the family 4: devoted to home duties and pleasures INTEGRITY is a concept of consistency of actions, […]
Domestic Integrities
The DEHSART team participated in bringing together creativity and environmental education to transform illegally dumped waste into art while working with the Lancaster Museum of Art and History (MOAH) and the Eastside High School Art Department’s collaborative project: “Wasteland: Turning Illegally Dumped Waste into Art.” Inspired by the 2010 documentary film […]
Building community involvement
“Moving recycling from the cultural periphery and installing it in the cultural hub demands taking a life-long pledge to banish the notion of ‘WASTE’ and install the concept of ‘RESOURCE’.” -Linda Weintraub Art provides a unique platform for interaction with the public. Artists contribute in innovative ways to the well being of […]
