The cave digger: Hewing art from the very landscape
CBS News/August 24, 2014, 9:22 AM
The cave digger: Hewing art from the very landscape
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It seems artistic inspiration can be found throughout the New Mexico landscape -- and maybe even beneath it, as our Lee Cowan has discovered.
This story was originally broadcast on May 18, 2014.
In the high desert of northern New Mexico, if you listen carefully, you might just hear something more than the wind. It's the underground sound of a man obsessed.
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His name is Ra Paulette, who for the past 25 years -- with only his dog for company -- has been scraping and shaping New Mexico's sandstone into man-made caves of art.
"Do you think you're obsessed with cave digging?" asked Cowan.
"Would you call a child being obsessed with play?" replied Paulette. "You wouldn't use that word 'obsessed.' You know, when you're doing something you love and are drawn to it, you want to do it all the time."
He calls them his wilderness shrines -- massive in scale, poetic in their design. If his work takes your breath away, that's just what he hoped it would do.
"I see this as an environmental project; I'm trying to open up people's feelings," he said.
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