These photos capture the American desert as a fever dream

Adam Powell’s first solo exhibition, The DESERT is a CIRCLE, is a disorienting road trip where the road stretches on forever

These photos capture the American desert as a fever dream
The DESERT is a CIRCLE

There’s a line in Alejandro Jodorowsky’s 1970 Mexican acid Western film, El Topo, that goes like this: “The desert is circular.” When New York-based photographer Adam Powell watched the film for the first time, he’d almost finished creating his series of work located in the American desert. “I was in disbelief about how much the movie resonated with what I’d been making over the years,” he says. The film influenced the name of his first solohellip;

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