68-year old Ra Paulette spends his days alone with his dog, deep inside a
cave, carving the walls into abstract shapes. When he gets paid, he
charges $12 an hour. He uses no power tools… only basic hand tools. And
he says he is having “…the time of my life.” So… he’s crazy, right? In
the words of the great Jimi Hendrix, “You have to go crazy and be crazy.
Craziness is like heaven.” Crazy or not, for 25 years, Paulette has
made it his life’s mission to encourage “spiritual renewal and personal
well being” through the transformation of solitary caves into temples of
beauty and environmental consciousness. In the sandstone caves of the
New Mexico desert, the self-taught sculptor and architect carves
amazing, transcendent spaces, full of light and the celebration of life
on earth.read the entire article at homefixated.com
