1 00:00:07,415 --> 00:00:12,342 [RACKSTRAW DOWNES: TEXAS HILLS] 2 00:00:15,465 --> 00:00:17,515 People are very hypocritical, you know-- 3 00:00:17,515 --> 00:00:19,046 they like cosmetics. 4 00:00:19,495 --> 00:00:21,176 If the place is all cleaned up, 5 00:00:21,176 --> 00:00:23,677 and there's no sign of any functionalism going on here, 6 00:00:23,677 --> 00:00:24,838 that's what they like. 7 00:00:24,968 --> 00:00:29,077 They don't want to see the line that brings power to their refrigerator, 8 00:00:29,077 --> 00:00:32,340 even though they get up in the morning and drink orange juice out of it. 9 00:00:32,340 --> 00:00:33,477 [LAUGHS] 10 00:00:35,258 --> 00:00:40,376 And my job is to provoke this hypocrisy 11 00:00:40,376 --> 00:00:41,922 and tease this hypocrisy 12 00:00:41,922 --> 00:00:45,879 and try to get some sense into their heads. [LAUGHS] 13 00:00:53,556 --> 00:00:57,321 I'm in interested in landscape where people have acted upon it. 14 00:00:57,321 --> 00:00:59,614 I grew up in a landscape like that. 15 00:00:59,614 --> 00:01:01,349 England is very lived upon. 16 00:01:01,766 --> 00:01:03,920 All of Europe really is, you know. 17 00:01:03,920 --> 00:01:07,122 George Orwell said, "When you take a step somewhere in Europe, 18 00:01:07,122 --> 00:01:09,490 you're probably treading on ten dead people." 19 00:01:09,490 --> 00:01:10,820 [LAUGHS] 20 00:01:10,820 --> 00:01:12,691 And it is like that! 21 00:01:12,828 --> 00:01:14,892 And, I think that's okay. 22 00:01:15,019 --> 00:01:21,953 The American romance with the untouched landscape is sort of foreign to me-- 23 00:01:21,953 --> 00:01:25,122 it's never exactly hit me, particularly. 24 00:01:25,261 --> 00:01:28,716 And I like the landscape that has been modified--that's okay. 25 00:01:28,716 --> 00:01:29,952 People aren't so bad. 26 00:01:29,952 --> 00:01:31,849 They go in there and do these things, 27 00:01:31,849 --> 00:01:34,414 and some of the things are rather wonderful, 28 00:01:34,704 --> 00:01:37,524 and this is one of those places to me. 29 00:01:41,651 --> 00:01:43,545 It's not in the middle of nowhere, 30 00:01:43,545 --> 00:01:46,354 it's right here on the edge of town. [LAUGHS] 31 00:01:46,354 --> 00:01:49,060 And you can see little bits of the town from here. 32 00:01:49,060 --> 00:01:52,486 There's something funny about that juxtaposition that I like very much. 33 00:01:52,486 --> 00:01:54,044 I find it very touching. 34 00:01:54,044 --> 00:01:56,553 I also love the proximity of these towers. 35 00:01:56,553 --> 00:01:58,015 The towers are enigmatic. 36 00:01:58,015 --> 00:02:01,124 That white tower up there is such a wacky shape, 37 00:02:01,124 --> 00:02:02,920 popping out of that mound. 38 00:02:02,920 --> 00:02:06,416 And the cell tower is wonderful, too. 39 00:02:06,416 --> 00:02:09,352 It's just so extraordinarily tall, 40 00:02:09,352 --> 00:02:12,552 and those immense cables that hold it up, you know. 41 00:02:12,753 --> 00:02:14,814 These things appeal to me. 42 00:02:17,153 --> 00:02:23,490 And then I love the fact that the kids ride around on here in their ATVs. 43 00:02:24,020 --> 00:02:27,415 The thought of somebody riding around on one of these machines like this, 44 00:02:27,415 --> 00:02:31,413 with absolutely no rules and laws governing them, 45 00:02:31,413 --> 00:02:32,721 and so forth and so on. 46 00:02:32,721 --> 00:02:34,446 I think it's very wonderful. 47 00:02:34,446 --> 00:02:40,664 I think it's a lovely bit of youth having its own good time, in its own way. 48 00:02:40,754 --> 00:02:44,784 Taking the most dramatic little paths up there 49 00:02:44,784 --> 00:02:46,382 so they'd be right on the crest-- 50 00:02:46,382 --> 00:02:49,815 always the path goes to the crest of the hill. 51 00:02:49,952 --> 00:02:53,195 And I just find that all very delightful. 52 00:02:53,195 --> 00:02:54,180 I like it.