Marcus Ashley: South Lake Tahoe

Welcome to Town · Edition of 75

Time Has No Meaning
Around Here

"The title comes from a dream. I was in the little town I grew up in in Wyoming and I got commandeered by someone. I watched just one atrocity happen after the other. At some point I ended up in a lounge, talking to one of the characters. I said, 'This was a ghost town a couple years ago.' He looked me square in the eye and said, 'Time has no meaning around here.' Then I woke up."

"I already had this idea for a train painting — from a morning in Alaska, going out to fish. Misty and foggy, the sun rising through the fog. It occurred to me that the light looked like a train coming through the mist. A big steam train in a river, in the middle of nowhere. Rusted out. Like a world that's gone. But the light on the train is still lit. Like it could come back to life."

"There are no hands on the clock face. Who knows what time it is."