The Mindful Stead
“Ultimately, the project extended between mountain ranges,” he says. “The desert is so powerful, so it fully involved and reflects it.” The audience for Lucid Stead had a very deliberate experience of just being there. “People became very conscious of their surroundings and hyperaware of the quiet,” says Smith. His newest project, Reflection Field, took the luminescent, mirrored panels from the homestead and proportionally tripled their size, creating a 21st Stonehenge in a field at Coachella, the music festival at Indio, California....