ROAD TRIP- STOP @ BOWIE

december 30th, 2011
1pmish

i make a stop @ BOWIE ARIZONA, to have a studio visit with one of my artists~ 
TED DICKINSON. he created dildos and sculptures from marble. all hand carved. his work is amazing.

(downtown bowie)

this will be the first i meet him in RT, (real time). ted is a self-avoiud recluse. originally from san francisco, ted spend his heyday in the city by the bay during "her" best of times, late 1960s early 70s.
he then moved to bisbee, az, one of my personal fave places on earth. about 15 years ago he moved to bowie and never looked back. bowie is...... a trip.. there is nothing there.... literally nothing. 
well actually there is a pecan farm and a vineyard 
so i picked up some of that.

there is also a TEEPEE CAFE.. it is abandoned.

ted lives in artist squalor of the highest order. he has everything he need to create his art. and that is all. nothing more, nothing less.
he is quite the character, as are all antebellum artists. 
ted has numerous studios joined together to create his various sculptures. there's the prerequisite basement/dungeon that looks like the crawl space of john wayne gacy. 
he even has a chainsaw and a gun! 
well if someone is going to be a serial killer, bowie is the place to be.

my fave  spot is his herbarium where he grows "medicinal" mescaline and "medicinal "LSD plants.
ted confirms what he is growing is legal as medicine. after all he bought the plants online.
ted & i have tea together. actually he made coffee for himself and boiled some water for me. 
since i have a tea fetish, i bring my own tea. we also have sees candies which i leave for him to munch on after hours.

about bowie~

Bowie is an unincorporated community in Cochise County, Arizona. The community lies on Interstate 10 in eastern Arizona close to the western New Mexico border. 

On Interstate 10, Willcox, Arizona at the Willcox Playa lies west-southwest; San Simon, AZ and Road Forks-Lordsburg, New Mexico lie east. 

 the population is 706

It is also the birthplace of the fictional character John Rambo from the 
sylvester stallone series.

afterwards i drive thru- STEIN, a real honest to god southwestern ghost town. i was here about 10 years ago and still remember how to get there!

Steins Railroad Ghost town was once a thriving railroad station town named after 
Captain Enoch Stein, U.S. Army officer who was the first Anglo witness to sign a treaty with the Mimbres Apaches including Delgadito and Victorio.
 At the town's peak, between 1905 to 1945 Steins supported 1300 residents.