Mojave is tiny, theres not that much there
But this place, is a--
obviously somebody had this idea they were gonna
build this little trailer park
It never happened In other words,
nobody ever parked their trailer there Its a little ruin
But it doesn't look like theres much there,
and thats the challenge, its just like oh,
how are you gonna make a picture of this?
Alright, well, were here
Hm, okay
I gotta get some coffee
I like the idea that its all walled in
and I can come in and spend time here alone,
and nobodyll bother me
The first time I came here,
I photographed certain things--
I tried to photograph certain things, it didnt work, I
came back again, tried something else
So its like peeling off the layers of this place
Ive been to places where Ive made a terrific picture
the first time, but thats-- thats rare
I usually go to places again and again
So I shot this where only the--
the metal posts are in f-- are sharp
Everything falls away
And then I shot it the other way,
where everythings sharp, right Its a different feeling
Like, not just a-- the focus,
just the-- the-- kind of the way the light falls
and everything
And its different if you stop down its-- its very sharp,
but then the l-- the-- the-- you might say the layers
are very distinct
But its a very different feeling [camera shutter]
God, I may just go home now
Ive been trying-- I tried to photograph these trees
before, but a--
it didnt work
So theres a way to get through over there
Theres a hole Im gonna go around that-- through that
The lights better
I was coming over here to look at these,
cause I was here before, and I didnt see that, you know
God
Wait a minute, did I miss something else now?
Just a little bit
Yeah [camera sound] Thats it [chuckles] I got excited
at that, the end of that
And then we went all that way
But this actually-- it feels like this was like,
it-- b-- building all up to this
And if you think about it,
its really more like these are landscape type pictures,
right
But about what, you know
About this
I just think this is just an extension
of my way of working out of LA, but its still,
a-- looking at places, like this place,
compared to places Ive been in LA that people are not
looking at
And somebody should be looking at these kind of places
I think its a challenge to still
be out in the real world,
still looking, trying to make a picture of something
thats compelling
And, Im-- Im all for that
Th-- The thing about a--
now if, in other words, if I made these pictures today
and Ill see the film, and Im really happy with it, then
I wont be coming back here, really
But Ill feel like I should be coming back here