Palm Springs Spinners is a desert-inspired work from my Abstract Distortions series, created after relocating to Palm Springs, California. The wind turbines scattered across the desert horizon became the starting point for this piece. Rather than documenting them literally, I reimagined them as oversized mechanical flowers rising from the desert floor, forming a playful and exaggerated landscape that reflects the rhythm and repetition of the turbines that now shape my everyday view of the Coachella Valley.
Palm Springs Spinners March (2026)
My work in the Abstract Distortions series begins with photography rather than drawing. I often say that I can’t draw, but I can create. My process involves dissecting photographs and manipulating them until they become something entirely different. In Palm Springs Spinners, the turbine “petals” began as a photograph of my ear that I digitally liquified and reshaped into sculptural forms. The small spheres anchoring each spinner came from a photograph of my dog’s toy ball. These fragments were then rebuilt into a new surreal landscape where familiar objects lose their identity and become something unexpected.
While this piece is lighter and more playful than some of my darker distortion works, it reflects the influence of the desert environment that now surrounds me. Palm Springs Spinners became a way for me to reinterpret this landscape through color, humor, and transformation and further expanding my exploration of how photography can be dismantled and rebuilt into something entirely new.
Artwork Details
Artist: Baroque Medusa
Title: Palm Springs Spinners
Series: Abstract Distortions
Medium: Photographic manipulation and digital composition
Year: 2026
Location Inspiration: Palm Springs, California
Palm Springs Spinners is part of the ongoing Abstract Distortions series by Baroque Medusa.
Baroque Medusa 
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