There is a saying: Artists are lonely, and the short story I am going to tell you today is a similar example. In a desert somewhere in New Mexico, a place with the sixth lowest population density in the United States, there lived an old man named Ra Paulette. He had not had any contact with humans for several years, and his only companion was a little black dog. What he and the little black dog must do every day is to walk two kilometers to a cave in the north to create his great creation.
If director Jeffery Karoff hadn't accidentally learned of his creation and filmed the documentary "The Hole Digger" for him, probably the world would never have known about this art. Karoff said with emotion: "Ten years of loneliness created such a A spectacular cave, but it’s a pity that even the local residents may not know about this creation.”
What exactly is this creation? The answer is "wall-cut grotto".
The story goes back to the summer of 1985. Ra was responsible for operating an excavator in a construction company. But before that, he worked as a farmer, cleaner, postman, and even a homeless man, which gave him rich life experience. Let him have a strong heart.
He was working as usual that day, but as he was digging, something suddenly happened.He thought: "God gave him a pair of artistic hands, how could he just dig these things?" So he quit his job and started looking for cave carvings everywhere. In 1987, he completed the first carved cave "Heart" in Arroyo Saco Canyon, which instantly became a local tourist attraction.
However, his lonely character prevented him from creating with other art lovers, so he packed up his bags and set out for New Mexico. He said that he wanted to create a cave, "to connect the soul with the earth, so that people can Find your heart and wake up to who you really are."
He put the greatest effort into the design of each room in the cave. When the sunlight gently falls in the cave, the light seems to blend with these carvings, forming the most beautiful scene.
