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When Andy Stillpass, John Connelly and I were trying to come up with a name for High Desert Test Sites, we emailed our options to Aleksandra, who was a mutual friend, and she said “Definitely High Desert Test Sites”, so in a way she is responsible for our name which has at times been a source of confusion since it references the Nevada Nuclear Test Sites and has vaguely militaristic or governmental references to those versed in desert terminology. We later invited Aleksandra to participate in our second event and she sent a zine out of a bunch of photos that she had taken of herself on a previous visit to Joshua Tree. In the photos she is standing on a large graffiti covered rock along Amboy Road at the point when it passes through the Sheephole Mountain range and heads over toward Amboy. In each photo she strikes a different pose of herself as a Joshua Tree.