In 2006, Land Arts of the American West was asked to create an ARTL!ES "archive" at Cabinetlandia, a borrowed piece of land near Deming, New Mexico.

The site is part of the Deming Ranchettes, desert scrubland throughout Luna County that was speculatively divided into 87,000 half-acre residential lots and sold in the 1960's. Its original dirt roads have become faint shadows tracing property lines across an expanse of open horizon. This

seemingly empty Chihuahuan Desert basin appears as a zone to traverse on your way between places. Void is the essential the character of this place. Its transient nature and the ambulatory mode of Land Arts investigation prompted a dispersed response to the project. Instead of making a static container, our goal was to locate the actual issues within the landscape and archive the stories, or lies, returned in that exchange.

Once all the issues were located, the recorded stories were edited and complied for broadcast on the site. A portable tower was built to project ARTL!ES into the void; to broadcast the stories of Deming into the desert, towards the passing traffic, and back into the landscape that produced them.