Picked by The New Yorker
An Artist Seeks Reinvention by Living Off the Grid
Artist Lala Abaddon leaves New York City for a rough, isolated desert home and discovers a new kind of peace and creative freedom.
A serene portrait of an artist trading the city for the desert and finding herself again.
In Stephen Michael Simon’s documentary, Lala Abaddon leaves New York City and finds peace, and creativity, in her new hardscrabble desert home.
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