Wide Open Spaces
Watch a behind the scenes video with Taylor Bruce.
On a bright Big Bend afternoon in far-west Texas, I steer myself along a high-desert, two-lane highway, tufts of dried-up tumbleweed
thistle packed like snow against barbed-wire fences. The sky above opens up its cobalt tent; the space beneath stretches as
far as an ocean. U.S. 90 leads me through the Davis Mountains and ocotillo-and-cactus flats to Marfa, Alpine, and Marathon,
a string of three Big Bend towns just 60 miles apart. Here they live as siblings in a remote, starkly beautiful landscape
as mysterious to me as Mars.
“Driving from Dallas, we often joke,” says Marfa wood artist Camp Bosworth, “ ‘Who would put a town out here? And who would
live in it?’ And we realize, well, us.”
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