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get lost, we longed for that feeling of disappearing. Just temporarily.

Beth and Miriam drove from Austin. I flew from New Jersey into El Paso to meet
Sara, who came in from Los Angeles.

Donald Judd, “15 untitled works in concrete” (1980-1984), at The Chinati Foundation.
Stacy Sodolak for The New York Times. Permission by Judd Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

We wanted to separate from the reality of our lives. Leave behind not just the
kids and the responsibilities, but the newspaper headlines and cable news. Was
that even possible?

In our all-American S.U.V., I gave it my best Bruce Springsteen-Thunder-Road-

I’m-pulling-out-of-here-to-win moment and we tore out of El Paso onto 10 East
doing 80 miles per hour through the vast Chihuahuan Desert, passing through
long stretches of flat landscape with puffs of sage brush for the three-hour drive

ahead of us.

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