This may have been the most depressing interior I have ever seen, considering the exterior. I say that as a SciFi -Dark Fantasy author and as a human.It was the most inhumane- BUT~ a visceral reaction is a good one. Means it triggered something. Hearing the architect talk about it, understanding that pit of stomach pull was intentional… okay. So…artistically effective.
Hanley looks like a rocker. & apparently is a filmmaker.
But Sheesh.
Talk about verboten. It’s straight institutionalized Archon interior. To the extreme. Intentionally.
& I love Joshua Tree.
Was stationed out up against those rubble mountains on an art compound for six weeks a lifetime ago. & One of the best things- to my arthead ass- was how, when you’re there…the actual potency of the desert colors utterly overwhelms you. & every hour of every day the color is different. SO the concept of a house that makes that outdoors the focus? Phenomenal idea. The aperture of your eyes can change out there in cool ways if you can let it.
But the sterility of the inside of the structure almost seems to blot out the intensity that you’d be privy to inside, looking out. numbs it. Mellows it metallically. Mechanically. Maybe that’s the point. That many who’d come & stay there wouldn’t have the bandwidth to be able to deal with the vivid potency saturated into the vista if they were looking out from some welcoming, womblike space…and need all else to be not just muted, but almost cauterized in its clinician-esque vibes.
I wonder what a space like that would be like reimagined with the warm and intensity of Joshua Tree rumbling around its interior so that when you entered the space you’d feel a sigh of relief and relaxation from escaping the beautiful press of the terrain. Versus a blot-out.
He said he was all into Ai & sci-fi…and boy does it vibrate with the chewing on aluminum variant of all that. If HAL got into a body and made a break for it, he’d feel at home here.
A remake oF Damien as the antichrist raised in an Ai house as the 13th offspring of Elon Musk( from the book about the mars dude that you know who is named after) that has Mark Zuckerberg replacing Kevin Spacey’s voice to rear the child in the absence of human interaction… would be wild to shoot here. With waterboarding indoctrination scenes in those hollow hearted bathrooms-
But both the Angels and the Demons would be horrified here.
It’s like running to it as an outpost on the horizon that you’ve walked through days of desolate detritus to get to, hoping for an oasis of life and finding it all thus spake Zarathustra inside, an automated, abandoned cyborg training facility where one slight human child with dead eyes is being raised to rule the world-
But like I said… it’s f ureaking visceral… so they did the do.
OMG.
That’s it.
Lead.
The interior hit my spirit like Lead.
But!
BUT!
It’s a mirrored haus.
The back of a mirror IS a dead zone!
Old mirrors used to be backed with Lead and I’m telling you…lead is the feeling that bloomed watching this.
But at the same time…supposedly, lead painted interiors are the only ones that block out all this 5G stuff. Yep, the same kids eating paint chips, cancer causing lead…that they went through all of that to get out of homes before we as a culture started broadcasting 1000x more than we ever had the capability to before.
Mirrors on the outside, interior design of the outpost brings to mind the energy of lead.
HOW. FN POETIC IS THAT?!
Sheeeeeesh, man.
No wonder him and his wife live in the lil casita off to the side.