“shade is short and miles away, tucked between the Chinati mountains and the Mexican border”

‘Land art’ is one of the most inspiring influences for Jack and Lazaro of Proenza Schouler, and the wide, arid expanses of Marfa in Texas is the perfect playground for their artistic fulfillment – with many of the large-scale environmental sculptures, silos and concrete structures that Donald Judd transformed in the 70′s still remaining.

In 2009 for A#9, photographer Josie Miner journeyed to Marfa to create her own body of work – exploring the industrial and agricultural relics that dot the landcape. The result of this trip is “8 Untitled Works”, a series that celebrates the journey she made, the stops along the way and the spectacular scenery she captured along the way.

Josie’s medium-format film photography offers beautiful mistakes and striking saturations of colour and light, causing desert horizons to glow and for images to be superimposed across each other.

Read her handwritten notes below each image, as she poetically annotates each picture.

“in the low, lonely horizontal blue desert plain of the Chihuahuan”

“as day dims, light is long.”

“bowing towards the horizon, the retiring sun sets the sky ablaze and the desert aglow.”

“a weightless, soft sensual glow : purple mountain silhouettes, capacious sky, undulating glass, amber cactus and concrete.”

“light and dark, land and sky and blue and melt.”

“the cool, quiet haze of dark generously gives way to starry desert night dreams.”