Luke MacNeil

On airPlaying tonight — Planet Marfa

Photography

Nightwork

Most of these are the same picture in different clothes: the galaxy over an abandoned human thing. A drive-in screen. A tent. A stone tower nobody has a name for. The Milky Way is the easy part — the hard part is finding something underneath it worth the drive.

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Escalante

The Grand Staircase from the side of the road, somewhere before the Hogback.
Highway 12Grand Staircase-Escalante, Utah

Nightwork

Sodium light on rust, and more stars than the town ever had people.
RhyoliteRhyolite, Nevada
The Milky Way over an abandoned train depot in Alpine Texas.
Waiting on the Train
A drive-in screen still standing, a car still parked at it, and the galaxy doing the projecting.
Yonder, EscalanteEscalante, Utah
Firelight against galaxy light. The only warm thing for a hundred miles.
Spencer FlatGrand Staircase-Escalante, Utah
A stone tower nobody has a name for, with the core rising straight out of it.
HachitaHachita, New Mexico
Aurora that far south is an event, not a plan.
Montana AuroraMontana