An improvisation, a poem, a song, blue nights in Palm Desert.

Inspired by the films of Vincent Grenier, magicians, Rebecca Solnit, and "Yves Klein Speaks!"

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“For many years, I have been moved by the blue at the far edge of what can be seen, that color of horizons, of remote mountain ranges, of anything far away. The color of that distance is the color of an emotion, the color of solitude and of desire, the color of there seen from here, the color of where you are not. And the color of where you can never go.”

“We treat desire as a problem to be solved, address what desire is for and focus on that something and how to acquire it rather than on the nature and the sensation of desire, though often it is the desire between us and the object of desire that fills the space in between with the blue of longing.”

“The blue of distance comes with time, with the discovery of melancholy, of loss, the texture of longing, of the complexity of the terrain we traverse, and with the years of travel.”

― Rebecca Solnit, A Field Guide to Getting Lost

Yet the proper origin of land art may be in the Nouveaux Réaliste movement and/or Fluxus. In a c. 1960 letter Yves Klein wrote, “I will raze everything at the surface of the entire earth until it is flat. I will fill the valleys with mountains, then I will pour concrete over the surface of all the continents.”

- William Poundstone, "How FLUXUS Invented Land Art," Blouin Art Blog 2012

Teenage informer Richard Brun, 19, shining a lot on the spot to which the bodies of the two sisters Gretchen, 17, & Wendy, 13, had been dragged in the desert by their killer Charles Schmid, 23, but can now not be found.