WEBVTT 00:00:07.415 --> 00:00:12.342 [RACKSTRAW DOWNES: TEXAS HILLS] 00:00:15.465 --> 00:00:17.515 People are very hypocritical, you know-- 00:00:17.515 --> 00:00:19.046 they like cosmetics. 00:00:19.495 --> 00:00:21.176 If the place is all cleaned up, 00:00:21.176 --> 00:00:23.677 and there's no sign of any functionalism going on here, 00:00:23.677 --> 00:00:24.838 that's what they like. 00:00:24.968 --> 00:00:29.077 They don't want to see the line that brings power to their refrigerator, 00:00:29.077 --> 00:00:32.340 even though they get up in the morning and drink orange juice out of it. 00:00:32.340 --> 00:00:33.477 [LAUGHS] 00:00:35.258 --> 00:00:40.376 And my job is to provoke this hypocrisy 00:00:40.376 --> 00:00:41.922 and tease this hypocrisy 00:00:41.922 --> 00:00:45.879 and try to get some sense into their heads. [LAUGHS] 00:00:53.556 --> 00:00:57.321 I'm in interested in landscape where people have acted upon it. 00:00:57.321 --> 00:00:59.614 I grew up in a landscape like that. 00:00:59.614 --> 00:01:01.349 England is very lived upon. 00:01:01.766 --> 00:01:03.920 All of Europe really is, you know. 00:01:03.920 --> 00:01:07.122 George Orwell said, "When you take a step somewhere in Europe, 00:01:07.122 --> 00:01:09.490 you're probably treading on ten dead people." 00:01:09.490 --> 00:01:10.820 [LAUGHS] 00:01:10.820 --> 00:01:12.691 And it is like that! 00:01:12.828 --> 00:01:14.892 And, I think that's okay. 00:01:15.019 --> 00:01:21.953 The American romance with the untouched landscape is sort of foreign to me-- 00:01:21.953 --> 00:01:25.122 it's never exactly hit me, particularly. 00:01:25.261 --> 00:01:28.716 And I like the landscape that has been modified--that's okay. 00:01:28.716 --> 00:01:29.952 People aren't so bad. 00:01:29.952 --> 00:01:31.849 They go in there and do these things, 00:01:31.849 --> 00:01:34.414 and some of the things are rather wonderful, 00:01:34.704 --> 00:01:37.524 and this is one of those places to me. 00:01:41.651 --> 00:01:43.545 It's not in the middle of nowhere, 00:01:43.545 --> 00:01:46.354 it's right here on the edge of town. [LAUGHS] 00:01:46.354 --> 00:01:49.060 And you can see little bits of the town from here. 00:01:49.060 --> 00:01:52.486 There's something funny about that juxtaposition that I like very much. 00:01:52.486 --> 00:01:54.044 I find it very touching. 00:01:54.044 --> 00:01:56.553 I also love the proximity of these towers. 00:01:56.553 --> 00:01:58.015 The towers are enigmatic. 00:01:58.015 --> 00:02:01.124 That white tower up there is such a wacky shape, 00:02:01.124 --> 00:02:02.920 popping out of that mound. 00:02:02.920 --> 00:02:06.416 And the cell tower is wonderful, too. 00:02:06.416 --> 00:02:09.352 It's just so extraordinarily tall, 00:02:09.352 --> 00:02:12.552 and those immense cables that hold it up, you know. 00:02:12.753 --> 00:02:14.814 These things appeal to me. 00:02:17.153 --> 00:02:23.490 And then I love the fact that the kids ride around on here in their ATVs. 00:02:24.020 --> 00:02:27.415 The thought of somebody riding around on one of these machines like this, 00:02:27.415 --> 00:02:31.413 with absolutely no rules and laws governing them, 00:02:31.413 --> 00:02:32.721 and so forth and so on. 00:02:32.721 --> 00:02:34.446 I think it's very wonderful. 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. 00:02:40.754 --> 00:02:44.784 Taking the most dramatic little paths up there 00:02:44.784 --> 00:02:46.382 so they'd be right on the crest-- 00:02:46.382 --> 00:02:49.815 always the path goes to the crest of the hill. 00:02:49.952 --> 00:02:53.195 And I just find that all very delightful. 00:02:53.195 --> 00:02:54.180 I like it.