Entering the Ergosphere..

Ergosphere, 2026

It’s been about six months since I last went to Anza Borrego. It still baffles me how I spent so many years traveling to the Salton Sea region and missed this place entirely when its only a mile away. Having said that, this place always gives me the heeby-jeebies, and it literally smells of poo and wet-cardboard. But despite its stinky horror, the place is set to bloom with flowers in a few weeks which will take the smell away, but not the horror as the place becomes full of toddlers riding dirt bikes and RV’s the size of an oil tankers.

This new year has brought with it a few project ideas including this one, Ergosphere, which will hopefully form part of a larger body of work. I’m still not sure what the light source was behind the mountain is; at first I thought it was the moon, but that came up behind me!

One of the great things about going out to these places spooky places is that you are never really sure what you will get. My old professor used to tell me (or maybe it was my agent), ‘No one goes out happy on a sunny day and makes interesting pictures’ . So perhaps the opposite is true…