Last Day on the Road (ohgodadinosaur)

So I'm already delinquent on updating my blog! How typical is that. I am in Austin, and have been since Sunday night. The rest of the road trip was great. We drove from Tucson to Marfa, TX on Saturday. This scary raptor was outside a McDonald's. I almost died.

In Marfa, we tried to find some food at 9 PM: no easy task in a town that small. For those not aware, Marfa is a tiny town in south Texas. Donald Judd, a successful New York artist, moved there in 1980.
--He built this city, he built this city on min-i-mal-ist arrrrrrtttttt.--
A lot of artists then were attracted to the Southwest because of the large tracts of empty, cheap land available to do whatever installations you liked. Now, the Judd Foundation and the Chinati Foundation are the local strongholds. They provide internships and residencies for artists. A whole town where the only economy is art. Amber and I stayed in the Hotel Paisano, where the cast of Giant stayed during filming in Marfa (its other claim to fame). Let me tell you, Rock Hudson could never have fit in those bathtubs.
This is my favorite aluminum box. There are about sixty of them, and they are lined up in three rows inside of old artillery sheds where German prisoners worked in WWII. They're all different, and in a mass, they make a big impact.