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I cannot understand why you have paid so much attention to Schweitzer’s work in Joshua Tree. I drive the Quail Springs Road each and every day and have to look at those buildings of his.

The colors are all wrong--aggressive, dogmatic, arrogant. Schweitzer may have intended to imitate wildflowers and their colors, but if so, he went wrong, way wrong. His colors--primary and mismatched--remind me of an Allied moving van that used to be parked not too far from Josh’s place. It was all bright, bright orange; it caught one’s attention and held it.

The trick photography used on the house has nothing to do with ordinary reality. It has to do with filters and cropping and editing and the darkroom. If the desert looked like that, I wouldn’t have to write this letter.

RICHARD LEE Joshua Tree