Lake Kowell is a fine art photographer and mixed media artist with a compulsion to see her daydreams recreated.
Towing a vintage Aristocrat travel trailer that in itself is a rolling work of art…
she travels across the country to various locations for inspiration. Through persuasion, talking and cajoling she has been admitted into many various walks of life. With a love of people and a deep respect for diversity she has had the honor of hearing and seeing some of this countries most amazing people.
Lake lives with her husband and daughter in the wooded mountains of Healdsburg in Northern California with their 3 dogs, 3 fish, 1 cat and 38 chickens.
She has exhibited her work at numerous venues and sold privately to collectors across the nation.
I just want to share with you some of the things I love. I love California for its variety and individuality.
Here’s someone getting a little creative with a rock pile on the side of the road.
We have a little bit of everything here on the west coast.
Or here “Midnight Lightning” on a rock at a very isolated swimming hole
To drive through the woods and suddenly see this…
A Big Bad Wolf
I dig those complete strangers that come up to you and begin talking enthusiastically to you as if you’ve been friends for years. Here is one such individual in Barstow, Ca. I love these people.
My 1973 Lincoln Continental Mark IV. I love this car. 460 cu. In. V8 engine that gets about 8 miles to the gallon. This sucker just floats down the freeway.
Traveling. I love to travel preferably by myself. I call it “The Creative Odyssey”. There is no destination but the journey itself. I’ve been very lucky to see and meet some great people.
Miss Dixie Evans at the Exotic World Museum located near Helendale, CA. (which is supposedly a town but I saw no evidence of this). It used to be an old goat ranch when Dixie’s friend and fellow bump and grinder, Jennie Lee “the Bazoom Girl”, started the tribute museum to the burlesque dancers. It was about 100 degrees in the shade when we found it.
After a lengthy and informed tour by a man we found in a small trailer out in a field drinking out of a paper bag with a broken leg, Dixie came out and sat with us under the veranda and chatted. She told us how she took over after Jennie Lee died. The Bazoom Girls husband was still resides there, he brought us waters. She was excitedly getting ready for the next Miss Exotic World pageant…
and talking of her plans to move Exotic World to Las Vegas. But on that stifling hot afternoon we sat listening intently and trying not to smell our alcoholic tour guide, she grandly held court telling stories of the past and all her dreams for the museums future. It was hard not to be mesmerized by her and in 2006 she did have it moved to Las Vegas.
I just want to show you some of the things I love
Miss Dixie Evans at the Exotic World Museum located in Helendale, CA.
