About Imperial Valley
Imperial Valley is a project by British artist, writer, and composer Richard Skelton . His work often evolves from sustained immersion in specific environments and wide-ranging research incorporating toponymy and language, archaeology and geology, folklore and myth. Imperial Valley, California, was the site of many labour camps for migrant workers escaping the dust-bowl famines of the 1930s. Some of these camps were documented by photographer Dorothea Lange.
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American Memory, I
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American Memory, II
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‘This machine and power age’
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After the tent revival, 5pm, Mar 7, 1937
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Sand Hills outside Mesquite, heading south, 7am, Jan 21, 1934
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To safeguard a nation
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Towards the gold rock, Hedges, 4.20pm, Oct 29, 1929
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Labor camp, north-east of Calexico, April 18, 1938
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Tortuga, towards Salvation Pass, Aug 7, 1939
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Outlook over Graffiti Mesa, 11am, Feb 2, 1944
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Folded time/sermon in the dust, ‘behold the bridegroom cometh’, 6am, May 6, 1929/79
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Fields around Calipatria, 9pm, Oct 8, 1934
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‘Rain follows the plough’
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Approaching storm, north-west of Yuma, 8pm, Apr 14, 1945
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Fields North Of Kane Springs, Oct 8, 1938
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‘Ditch-bank blues’
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Barren Mountains, Before Dawn, Jan 14, 1930
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Cloud over Brawley, 7:15pm, Jun 8, 1935
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Ogilby Convergence Psalm
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Desert Station, Southern Pacific Line, Feb 4, 1939
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Towards Mammoth Wash, Dusk, Oct 29, 1929
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Near migratory labor camp, Brawley, 6am, Aug 14, 1939
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Folded Time/North Shore Homily, ‘even Tomorrow The Lord Will Show Who Are His’, Sept 7, 1929/49
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Folded Time/Desert Gospel, ‘departed From The Faith’, 7Pm, Sept 7, 1930/49
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Lights Over Superstition Mountain, 12:04Am, Apr 10, 1933
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Plains east of Holtville, 8:30pm, Mar 8, 1937
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Mine works, Obregon, 11pm, Oct 12, 1939
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‘The old rugged cross blues’
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‘Lonesome desert blues’
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Fields around Calipatria, IV, 9pm, Oct 8, 1934
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‘A thousand acres’
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Near migratory labor camp, Brawley, IV, 6am, Aug 14, 1939
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Plains east of Holtville, IV, 8:30pm, Mar 8, 1937
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Cloud over Brawley, IV, 7:15pm, Jun 8, 1935
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Mine works, Obregon, IV, 11pm, Oct 12, 1939
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American Memory I
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'Rain follows the plough'
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Folded time/sermon in the dust, 'behold the bridegroom cometh', 6am, May 6, 1929/79
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'Ditch-bank blues'
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This Machine And Power Age
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Lonesome Desert Blues
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‘This machine and power age’
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Fields North Of Kane Spring, Oct 8, 1938
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Folded Time / Desert Gospel, "Departed From The Faith", 7pm, Sept 7, 1930/49
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Folded Time / North Shore Homily, "Even Tomorrow The Lord Will Show Who Are His", Sept 7, 1929/49
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"The Old Rugged Cross Blues"
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Remote etheric dowsing, Superstition Mountain, Mar 20, 2024
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Towards The Gold Rock
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Rain Follows The Plough
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Labor Camp Northeast Of Calexico, April 18, 1938
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