9/12 ARID Journal

Photo Credit: David Lancaster

The ARID Journal of Desert Art, Design and Ecology has accepted my work into their first issue. I’m very excited to be included in this publication – and hope to have the opportunity to meet other desert artists, writers, and thinkers over the next few years. After the installation was completed in June of 2010, I returned to Los Angeles and didn’t do much with it. With the inclusion of this piece in the Journal, you’ll find a new piece of writing about the creation of the installation, the history of the site, and my impressions of the land surrounding Rhyolite, NV.

ABOUT ARID:
ARID: A Journal of Desert Art, Design and Ecology is a peer-reviewed bi-annual journal focusing on cross-disciplinary explorations of desert arts, design, culture and the environment for both scholarly and new audiences. ARID seeks submissions of scholarly articles, curriculum, visual essays and other media including sound and video that investigate diverse aesthetic, social, cultural, historical, ecological and political subjects related to desert regions of the American Southwest and beyond. ARID emphasizes the convergence of art, design, and culture with science, ecology, geography and other related disciplines to create a unique snapshot of and dialog about desert environs and cultures with a vested and active interest in the desert as a point of creative investigation.

ARID is the result of a new partnership between University of New Mexico’s Art & Ecology Program, Desert Initiative at Arizona State University, Arid Lands Institute at Woodbury University.