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This project really started with a residency that I had about a year ago out in Arizona
at Arizona State University- a teaching residency and it was 2 months long and that was really
quite a long time for me. I don't think I've been outside of New York for more than two
weeks really since probably I've moved there for school. So anyway, all of that has just
set up the fact that -it opened up a great space for reflection for me being outside
of this environment that was so familiar to me - New York- my home, my patterns the people
that I engage with and really being quite alone out there in the desert. I think ,in
particular, I was really struck by how the act of seeing for me was really different.
Umm... that I was seeing with great distance.
I remember coming back and one of the first things or one of the conversations I had with
my lighting designer was explaining this one sort of phenomena that I felt like I experienced
which was that when I would look far out in the desert I felt like depth was collapsing
at some point on me. And that I was looking at like a painted back drop of a theater set
. There's like kind of a fuzzy almost pixilation in a way to what you're looking at . It's
a merger of these sort of outlines of mountain ranges and horizon lines and other topography
sort of coming together. I really deeply loved that.