Mark Bulwinkle's Desert Dancer Steel Screens
Brought to you by the Truth Factory of Oakland, California, USA.
"Joy"- A Mark Bulwinkle woodcut created in 1968
In 1967 an L.A. Valley Girl came to Berkeley, California to attend Merritt College.
She lived at the corner of Shattuck and Woolsey just across the street from
Black Panther headquarters. One of the jobs she held to support herself
was to work as a go-go dancer at a club down near San Pablo and University.
Berkeley was a very different place back in those days of youthful exuberance.
Fifty years later, having wandered the world, settled far from Berkeley, she still dances,
but in a very different way. The eleven steel screens you see on this page I created
in admiration of my friend, whom I shall call Desert Dancer. Mark Bulwinkle 2017
Shattuck Ave today
Harrison House
Eva Soltes 30 years ago wearing a crown
of spirals created by Mark Bulwinkle
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Eva Soltes of Harrison House in Joshua Tree, California
Desert Dancer Eva Soltes of Joshua Tree, California, and below,
the cut steel screens displayed at Jumpn' Java Coffee House one half
a block south of where Desert Dancer lived fifty years ago. What
goes around... and so it goes in our often small, small world.
Thanks for the inspiration, Eva. In times like these , that
can be a very hard thing to come by.
Mark Bulwinkle 2017
Like people, a good cup of coffee can be hard to find.
But not at Jump'n Java Coffee House at 6606 Shattuck, Oakland
Why is this man trying to fly?
The eyes have it!