Two miles northeast of the main intersection in Joshua Tree is a small old homesteader cabin at the end of a dirt road. Its’ fading dust colored plaster submerges into the desert surroundings. Its’ walls appear full of bullets, holes resulting from crumbling plaster. Its’ windows frame the desert surroundings and its’ ceiling beams dissect the almost always cloudless sky. The signs around the property and handwriting on the splintered walls have been blurred to confusion. Words like cabin, homestead, and compass are spelled “kabin, homestedler, and kmpass.”

Artist and storyteller Eames Demetrios invented a people and a history of the cabin, detailed on the signs and walls, as part of his larger project Kcymaerzthaere, which he calls 3-dimensional fiction. The Kcymaerxthaere website states, “Most visitors to the Joshua Tree area eventually notice the many small cabins dotting the desert landscape. The vast majority of these were built after the Civil War to hold people the government considered to be heretics and refused to repatriate to their rump homeland of Satgun.”

There is rarely more than one visitor or group of visitors to the cabin at a time, lending to a feeling that this isn’t a tourist destination or historical site, but an accidental desert find hiding in plain sight just slightly at a distance. The surroundings are quiet and the views are expansive. It’s easy to get lost in the fiction of Demetrios’ world, to mistake it for fact. Many visitors don’t realize the story is fictional, and have tried to research the fictional Wranglikan people after visting, to have been met with dead ends.

From 29 Palms Hwy drive north on Sunburst. Take a right on Crestview. Drive 1.3 miles and take a right on Border again. Drive about one "block" - the Krblin Jihn Cabin will be on your left.

http://www.kcymaerxthaere.com