D e s e r t E x p o s u r e
August 2010
Legendary Painter
I am thrilled and delighted to see you highlight artist Carl Faber in your latest issue of Desert Exposure ("An Artistic Apprenticeship," July). I am a friend of Carl and Adrienne and was their neighbor in the East Mojave Desert before they moved to New Mexico. Carl, of course, is a legendary painter in our neck of the creosote.
My wife and I vacationed in New Mexico two Christmases ago, taking the Southwest Chief to Albuquerque. We loved it. I'm sure you know, but we were in awe of the common beauty between the high desert landscape of New Mexico and the 5,000-foot Pinto Mountain area of the East Mojave where Carl and Adrienne came to you from.
Thank you for featuring Carl and his work and congratulations on a fine publication.
Chris Ervin
Rancho Santa Margarita, Calif.
Parallel Universe?
In writing about Palomas, Marjorie Lilly (Borderlines) apparently travels trapped within a parallel universe, a fear-filled and malodorous place, which I cannot find isomorphic with my lived daily reality of these past years.
I further find beneath comment her futile effort to cast more indirect dirt upon my friend, the late Mayor Estanislao Garcia, whose wonderful and religious family I ever come more closely to know, gracias a Dios, and I find her allegation that Guzman has come to Palomas as ridiculous as saying Sarah Palin has visited the Community Center in Columbus. For all of the curious favors that gentleman has received, including a jail break and the government massacre of the Leyva Beltran, a tour of Puerto Palomas does not seem in his cards, nor reasonable.
She has in this, as in all things in her column, been led around by the nose.
Charles Scanlon
Columbus