Day Trip to El Paso I

Saturday my friend Pauli and I went to El Paso, TX for a visit to the El Paso Museum of Art. (Let me add that the El Paso Museum of Art will not go down as one of the worlds finest, but when you have been without the finest for long enough it will do.) We parked the car in the lot under the Convention Center

When we emerged from the subterranean world of parking we discovered that the Convention Center had redesigned their plaza. No longer was it a vast interesting paved area with an unused water feature. It was now covered with a vast, multi angled, multi curved, blue, glass canopy that bordered on sculpture.

It was supported by the earth toned columns that were interesting in themselves being multi textured and evocative ofthe desert.

The over head was pure almost endless sky, the kind that is best enjoyed in the desert.

When viewed from inside the El Paso Art Museum across the street it was even more sculptural.

I would have liked to spend more time exploring and experiencing the changing light of the canopy, but El Paso is a two hour drive from Deming and moving on to the museum was in order.