Welcome to La Cueva de Luz
and The Museum of Desert Lights
For as long as we have walked the Earth, humans have found shelter in caves.
And, as we know from the many paintings at Lascaux in France and Altamira in Spain,
caves are where we first expressed our innate need to create “art.”
It is with these thoughts in mind that I created La Cueva de Luz – The Cave of Light –
and its Museum of Desert Lights, consisting of the seventy or so “lights” you see,
all of which I made out of discarded pieces of metal I found
on the land surrounding Bishop, California owned by the City of Los Angeles.
Although I just think they are nice to look at, it is not difficult to see the lights
as a metaphor for life: we are made, we are born, we grow, we learn,
we end up performing some function, along the way getting a little battered and bruised,
then we wear out and die, often buried in the dirt; but the shining
soul that God gave us remains, it survives and lives in eternity.
La Cueva de Luz and the Museum of Desert Lights are dedicated to
the memory of my parents, Henry and Eileen Berrey, who gave me a wonderful “cave”
in Yosemite Valley in which to grow up, allowing me to see so profoundly that God is an artist.
Thank You for Visiting • Allen Berrey
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MUSEUM HOURS
THURSDAY THRU SUNDAY 4:00 PM - 9:00 PM
TUESDAY & WEDNESDAY CLOSED
OR BY APPOINTMENT ~ 760-920-5944
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ADMISSION FREE
DONATIONS WELCOME