Photos of mystical neon trees danced off the walls of the Irene Carlson Gallery of Photography Tuesday as roughly 40 piled in for the opening reception of photo manager and coordinator for the Carlson Gallery Fred Brashear Jr.’s exhibition “While the Stars Look Down.”
A law to protect the Western Joshua Tree, a native desert plant, and make it illegal to import, export, sell, or remove the species without a state authorization was first introduced on February 7th by California Governor Gavin Newsom.