as the noise of modern life grows louder and the space to think gets smaller, a thirst has begun to emerge — for a way of living that hasn't been shaped by consumerism, success, and the constant bombardment of being told what to want.

i spent time in the great american deserts amongst a community of people who have walked away from all of it, in search of their own answers to the meaning of life.

This is what i found

"i live here because this place kills people"

"we should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable"

"I'M REALISING NO MATTER HOW MUCH or LITTLE I HAVE, IT HAS NO BEARING ON MY HAPPINESS WHATSOEVER"

“I believe each life we’re here is for our souls growth”

"if people only understood: all those things they think they have to have are what’s steeling their freedom.”

“I walked away from my home and all my stuff, I threw everything I thought I’d need in my pickup and left everything else behind”

"THE UNEXPLAINED IS ONLY UNEXPLAINED UNTIL IT'S EXPERIENCED"

“It’s probably a rare thing, here or on the outside world that A man finds any purpose at all, it’s certainly took me long enough”

“I should warn you - don’t stay here too long, it’s actually some kind of a vortex, it will suck you back, it’s like a seduction”

“I used to drink about a fifth a day just to keep normal”

"WE MIGHT BE THE ALIENS ANTFARM:

I DON'T KNOW"

“Love, harmony, peace, those are solutions to the problems we see, if I can be a vessel for any of those, I’m going to put my work into them”