I arrived in Marfa (click on marfa.org) late last night with a band of merry friends.  It is exciting to arrive in the desert. I am not sure if it is to do with being English, but it is just very exciting, in a way that I never found cowboy movies exciting. This morning we went to Chinati - the Donald Judd Foundation, which is housed in an old military base.  If you have a weekend that you aren't sure what to do with, definitely come down here.  We walked into one of the converted artillary bases. When the door opens and you look down this long room to see the aluminium boxes in a grid, it is really breathtaking.  Each one is different and captivating and en masse they are incredible, which is compounded by the wide expanse of Texan landscape visible outside the many windows. It is just amazing; and then you get a couple of deer running by the window and down into the field below where there are more Judd works in concrete.

Marfa itself is super cool.  We are staying at the Thunderbird Motel which is so hip and spot on; the mini bar (a metal basket filled with treats) is the hippest thing you have ever seen and I am addicted to the ginger chews that came in my Ballroom goody bag.  I will fill you in on more of the Ballroom and the performance at Liberty Hall after we have been there tonight.  This is a design/style/talent mecca.