Artist Sculpts Sandstone Cave in New Mexico

Ra Paulette is an artist who, in the past ten years, has used a sandstone cave, located in Northern New Mexico in between Taos and Santa Fe, as a grand-scale sculptural media. Working alone in this desert oasis he's fashioned, with his dog as his only companion, he sculpts one cavern area and moves on to another, carving each subterranean room in a different pattern and style. Paulette says he's trying to achieve a space that offers "spiritual renewal and personal well being." I just visited New Mexico this month, and the area definitely struck me as a place of spiritual renewal and well being; Paulette's cave and its surrounds look as if it would only intensify those feelings.