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The El Cosmico Offers a Different Experience

Located deep into the high plains desert landscape of remote West Texas is a collection of rooms that may appeal to a writer, hiker or someone on the run. Referred to as El Cosmico, this desert retreat in Marfa offers plenty of recreational activities but it is the accommodations that intrigue.

They are renovated trailers, safari and scout tents, Souix-style teepees, and Mongolian yurts. The complex offers a hammock grove, outdoor kitchen and dining area, community lodge, an outdoor stage, reading room and mercantile. There are also wood-fired hot tubs for romance.

Time Type

Dehli based street artist, DAKU, has produced a dynamic, time sensitive, public art piece for the St+art Festival in India. Over two months 25 artist from around the globe will transform the colonial Lodhi district into the country’s first public art area.

Local artist, DAKU, who remains anonymous, has produced an inventive installation, ‘Time changes everything’, which connects type with the passing of time by using the moving sunlight to cast ever-changing shadows of words onto a wall. 

Over 70 words have been mounted perpendicularly to a building façade to act as sundials. The shadow type sharpens into focus in the mornings revealing english words such as; Identity, Religion, Perception. This shadows stretch and yaw across the façade to later fade away as the light dims in the afternoon.

Photos by Pranav Gohil