There is no fixed perspective or correct interpretation. Each experience of this living artwork will be unique. There is no single time to view this work, as each variation provides something new: at night the distant lights refract to create a universe of stars on a tranquil afternoon the sky is transformed into banks of blue fragmented by slices of clouds. Like a human-scale lens, MIRAGE works to frame and distort the evolving world outside of it. Subject and object, interior and exterior, the psychological and physical each of these oppositional forces are held in constant tension, yet allowed to shift and transform in the ever-changing desertscape. Its mirrored surfaces form a life-size kaleidoscope that absorbs and reflects the landscape. As MIRAGE pulls the landscape in and reflects it back out, its familiar architectural form becomes a framing device, a visual echo-chamber endlessly reflecting both the dream of nature as a pure uninhabited state and the pursuit of its conquest. Situated at the juncture where the rugged San Jacinto mountain range gives way to the Coachella valley, MIRAGE is perched over a distant modern development that fades into the open desert. is a Craft Brewery & Scratch Kitchen focused on bright, beautiful beers, and unique beer-inspired food. The doors, windows, and openings have been removed to create a fluid relationship with the surrounding environment. This minimal structure now functions entirely in response to the landscape around it. MIRAGE is reconfigured as an architectural idea: the seemingly generic suburban home now devoid of a narrative, its inhabitants, their possessions. The mass-produced ranch home became a familiar sight across the country, the style filling the American landscape as quickly as each new subdivision was built.
After World War II, the ranch style’s streamlined simplicity gained popularity as commercial builders employed a simplified assembly line approach to create this efficient form, matching the rapid growth of the suburbs. In the 1920s and ‘30s a small inspired group of architects working in California and the West created the first suburban ranch style houses, fusing Wright’s fluid treatment of spaces with the simple one-story homes built by ranchers. The California Ranch Style, which is unique to the West, was informed by the ideas of architect Frank Lloyd Wright, who believed that architecture should be both in and of the landscape. Movement was the driving force behind the settling of the American West, and the long flat vistas that stretched toward the Pacific shaped the ideology behind this iconic embodiment of American architecture. Mirage opened on Februas a part of Desert X, a site-specific contemporary art exhibition curated by Artistic Director Neville Wakefield. MIRAGE distills the recognizable and repetitious suburban home into the essence of its lines, reflecting and disappearing into the vast western landscape. Utilizing the form of a ranch-style suburban American house, the sculpture is composed of reflective mirrored surfaces. Other menu highlights include smoked meat platters and seasonal vegetable plates.MIRAGE is a site-specific installation set in the Southern California desert. On the food front, Cinderlands Warehouse - located in the former Spaghetti Warehouse location, with an entirely rebuilt interior and portions of the exterior heavily remodeled - will offer lunch and dinner, with weekend brunch plans in the near future.Įxecutive Chef Joe Kiefer, an alum of Church Brew Works and Meat & Potatoes, uses beer and brewery byproducts in dishes like spent-grain chicharrones. In addition to beer, the beverage program in the Strip will include a Pennsylvania wine list curated by Kelly Peterson Bates, a certified sommelier and general manager of Cinderlands’ Butler Street location.Ĭocktails concocted by Sara Daversa, bar manager and assistant general manager, will showcase local liquors from Maggie’s Farm Rum Distillery, Wigle Whiskey and Lawrenceville Distilling Co. New barrel-aged offerings are on the horizon.
#The cinderlands dustwind desert upgrade#
Operating on a 15-barrel system (an upgrade from the 3.5-barrel Lawrenceville setup), Head Brewer Paul Schneider will whip up between eight and 16 draft beers, with can releases slated for every two weeks or so.Ĭinderlands specializes in seven styles ranging from pilsners and lagers to fruited sours and IPAs.
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