The Last Landscape

“Skinner spoke about his last trip, when he was 23 minutes close to execution. Prisoners are taken 43 miles to Huntsville. For the first time in 17 years, they see a tree, a gas station, an abandoned gas station, the things that are out there — the shittiest things. Inspired by Hank Skinner, I followed this route to death. It was almost like seeing something alien. Say someone took you to Israel, and set you down in the middle of the Holy Land, and it was the very first time you ever saw it, and you know you’re going to die. This landscape, bleak, forlorn – is as if entering Hank Skinner’s Holy Land…” –Werner Herzog

A Conversation Portrait drawing by our Artist-in-Residence, Flash Rosenberg from our February 29 event with Werner Herzog. See more from the evening here… and watch/listen to the event here…