THE MERMAID OF THE SALTON SEA Mixed Media. © Dec 29th 2011. By Leighton kelly back in the day when i was running a side show of freaks and oddities out of a trunk my friend and i took a road trip to the Salton Sea down south to look for unusual artifacts. we had hear that at the edges of the lake you could find piles of all sorts of bones from the death that this strange lake would up heave and we wanted to collect some for some obscure art project we were working on.  while walking on the strange banks of this lake of the dead i came across this strange creature. it was, of course, a fabled Mermaid but what i like to call a “true Mermaid”. the little mermaid stories we tell our children are fabrications begat by drunken sailors in tawdry barrooms. this is the only know specimen left that i know of and i have her hidden away under a pile of unsold garage sale treasure in a warehouse in west oakland. in any case i am heading down to the area where i found this creature so many years ago and maybe… just maybe…i’ll finish this sentence.

THE MERMAID OF THE SALTON SEA

Mixed Media. © Dec 29th 2011. By Leighton kelly

  • back in the day when i was running a side show of freaks and oddities out of a trunk my friend and i took a road trip to the Salton Sea down south to look for unusual artifacts. we had hear that at the edges of the lake you could find piles of all sorts of bones from the death that this strange lake would up heave and we wanted to collect some for some obscure art project we were working on.  while walking on the strange banks of this lake of the dead i came across this strange creature. it was, of course, a fabled Mermaid but what i like to call a “true Mermaid”. the little mermaid stories we tell our children are fabrications begat by drunken sailors in tawdry barrooms. this is the only know specimen left that i know of and i have her hidden away under a pile of unsold garage sale treasure in a warehouse in west oakland. in any case i am heading down to the area where i found this creature so many years ago and maybe… just maybe…i’ll finish this sentence.