POINT OF CONTACT
Walter De Maria’s The Lightning Field is not just an artwork—it’s an experience. Designed to be encountered over 24 hours, it challenges our sense of time, scale, and perception. It’s about presence, subtle shifts, and the charged space between stillness and transformation.
This retreat is for those drawn to art that unfolds in time, landscapes that alter awareness, and the feeling of standing at a threshold—between sky and earth, light and shadow, stillness and energy. The Lightning Field invites us to slow down, tune in, and notice what we might otherwise miss.
This is an intimate, off-the-grid experience. While lightning can’t be guaranteed, the experience is bound to be remarkable regardless of the weather. After our time at the Field, we’ll spend the rest of the weekend in Santa Fe—loosely structured, with time to unwind, process, and explore.
STILLNESS STUDY
What does it mean to cultivate solitude as a creative practice?
Georgia O’Keeffe and Agnes Martin both sought the quiet of New Mexico to distill their artistic visions—one through the vast, open landscapes of Abiquiú, the other through the meditative repetition of grids and muted color. This retreat is an exploration of stillness as both refuge and generative force, a space to listen deeply to ourselves and our creative impulses.
Through site visits to O’Keeffe’s home and Ghost Ranch, a guided discussion on Martin’s philosophy, and structured yet spacious exercises, we’ll engage solitude not as isolation, but as a wellspring for clarity and creative expansion. Held in the high desert of Taos, this retreat is for those drawn to quiet intensity, the edges of perception, and the radical act of slowing down.
THE SPIRAL JETTY
Part pilgrimage, part creative excavation—this retreat is an immersion into Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty and the shifting landscape of the Great Salt Lake.
Smithson’s work invites us to consider entropy, deep time, and the interplay between human intervention and natural transformation. The Jetty itself changes with the lake’s water levels, revealing and submerging over seasons and years—a reminder that nothing is fixed, that creativity, like the landscape, is in constant flux.
We’ll engage with these ideas through guided reflections, embodied exercises, and extended time at the Jetty itself. This retreat is for those drawn to art as process rather than artifact, to landscapes as living archives, and to the beauty of the impermanent.
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