“Beautiful, beautiful! Magnificent desolation”

I was in Seattle this weekend as part of the Bellevue Art Museum art festival. Its very beautiful in this corner of the country, but of course as usual I paid extra attention to the less-than-pretty locations. I went shooting Sunday night with Cara Skillingstead and Blake Johnson who patiently explored with me until after 2am. Here’s the polaroid I shot before shooting the film. As usual, the polaroid was just a rough tool for me to figure out where to go with the final shot, so its just a sketch. The scratches are from looking at the fresh and moist polaroid through a loupe magnifier.
In the words of Buzz Aldrin, while standing on the moon and looking at the expanse : “Beautiful, beautiful! Magnificent desolation”