Anyway so. I grew up in a desert - it’s the only place I’ve ever really known intimately. I took vacations in Rhode Island as a kid, but I was young and didn’t drive so I wasn’t like fully aware of the differences.
Roadtripping in Oregon I realized how spread out the lives there are, houses and barely towns in the middle of the forest or the woods. And I was trying to figure out why. Were our cultures just that different?
My first year of college a visiting artist put together a quilt with embroidery detailings of the local map, rivers and mountains and lakes depicted, city blocks. She said she thought it was so interesting how our cities and towns were built here, close together. I didn’t really understand why it was different because to me I just assumed that’s what a town is like.
But I think I like actually get it now. How in the desert your lives are built close together whether you like it or not, all around one thing - water. If water is abundant why not build your house in the middle of nowhere? But to build a house in the middle of the desert? Suicide.
















