It was underneath attack of demolition, which prompted the start of its conservation with cooperation between the Vandenberg Air Force Base and the Tribal Elders Council of the Santa Ynez Band of Chumash. These two events were able to stabilize and preserve the cave and its art. When previously studied, there have been many conclusions about how the work have been made but not a lot of conclusions about the symbolic worth of the rock art and what its that means to the Chumash tribe.
Artist Wolf Buttress created a sculptural set up that looks like an enormous dandelion wafting …