Desert Dominatrix

Is that what she said? What is that? I'm so intrigued.

I'm like, what

is that? She's alluding to...

I've been doing a lot of work with the desert, the high desert of Southern California over the last few years.

And the last time I saw her, I was telling her about how I've been calling the desert my desert dominatrix.

Oh, cool.

Yeah, and sort of just something I've been thinking about and feeling into that's weaving into a project that I'm working on right now.

Yeah, in relation to just my love for the desert and like the romance I've experienced with her.

You were there for an artist residency?

Is that where you spent

more time? Oh,

really?

Yeah.

The first time I spent extended period out there was in 2023.

I was there for about two months.

Wow.

And I was just living out there with one of my best friends.

I was in Landers.

I was staying at a place called Jackrabbit Studios, which is a really special spot.

It's like there's pine trees and you're just really out there.

You're near Go Mountain.

There's owls.

Oh, so nice.

And yeah, that was like coming after just like this desire that I'd had for a while to like spend some more time with the land.

I feel like I'd made a lot of short visits to the desert for a while and every time I kind of felt like a flirtation and there was always this like lingering desire to stay and just like I think because each time I was like feeling just how transformed i was being by the land and then i would like return back to civilization and kind of all the noise would kind of drown that out again so i was always i was just starting to feel very curious about like what if i just stayed like what would happen to my body um if you stay for a while in the desert