I wrote my senior essay on the Santa Fe Writer's Colony and my dissertation on sacred landscapes - the Grand Canyon, the Dakota Badlands. As a setting, I love the West. I just love that western landscape.
I love hiking to the top of mountains in L.A. and seeing incredible landscapes. It really inspires me.
I'm very influenced by landscapes, not so much the way places look as the way the names sound. In this country we've got so many cultures, and the place names - the Spanish names and the Indian names, which are so incredibly musical.
Maybe black and white is the best medium for landscapes, I don't know.
After Land I wanted to continue exploring the theme but I needed a new challenge so turned to colour. I explored Bradford and produced a series of urban landscapes that I liked, but because Land had made such an impact on the general public my colour work wasn't reviewed.
Thailand was a revelation to me; the landscapes, the culture, the food and the people.
I'm inspired by many things, from landscapes to textiles. Art and architecture always influence my design process.
'Lost' seems to be the inverse of 'Air': It explores dispossession and identity by forcing a bunch of people into one invented landscape instead of using many invented landscapes to keep people apart.
Wherever you look there are inspirations, books, literature, paintings, landscapes, everything. Just living is an inspiration.
Nothing is more pleasant for me than to be on location in the country that I love, in any of our western landscapes, being out there with a camp outfit and a film company.
