LA Times: Nevada’s Big Empty
“It was 1991,” he said. “I’d never been on a playa before. I just couldn’t believe it. Something is triggered when I get on a big open spot like this. I generally try to express it as a release. I feel things getting pulled out of me in all directions. Whatever it is–the urban pressures of living in a city, or just the stress of daily life–you get out here and you feel those things getting pulled out of you.
“The space is different. The size of things is different. We don’t get to see that anywhere else.”