May/June 02017 by FoAM.Earth

Guests: Nik Gaffney and Maja Kuzmanovic (FoAM)
Hosts: Ron Broglio, Adam Nocek, Stacey Moran, Sha Xin Wei (ASU)

Itinerary:

• Residency at the Combine Studios in Phoenix
• Desert botanical gardens
• ASU Art museum
• Arcosanti
• Cathedral Rock and Red Rock Crossing
• Sedona
• Oak Creek canyon (mountains/forest)
• Songbird Coffee and Tea House became our 'local' for morning debriefs, mapping, planning, etc.
• James Turrel's Air Apparent
• ASU tour: Global Institute of Sustainability GIOS, Laboratory for Critical Technics (LCT, Synthesis
• Casa Grande Ruins (holes / solstice /lunar standstill / ~18.6yrs)
• Biosphere 2 and related stories
• Road trip along i10
• Desert Center (CA)
• Joshua Tree National Park
• Tiki house
• Amboy
• Drylab2023, (Adiene Jenik’s living water project)
• Joshua tree national park and meeting the park ranger
• Box canyon
• Salton sea (and its yacht club)

Read about this trip in FoAM's Dust and Shadow: FieldNotes #1 on Medium

Planned but not visited:

• A-Z West
• High Desert Test Site, Joshua Tree
• Anasazi Archeology)

Memorable foods:

• Phoenix: Open Air Market, The Breadfruit, Pomo (for gluten free pizza), Angel's Trumpet Ale House
• Scottsdale: “modern” Mexican in a suburban mall
• Tempe: Cafe Boa (Italian / Balkan)
• Mecca: simple but delicious Mexican lunch
• Copenhagen airport: Mash