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Marfa, Texas

By Cathy Bailey, Heath Ceramics

We set out to Marfa, Texas, recently, for an old friend’s wedding - Jeanne Fitzgerald to Jason Davis. They met while working at Marmol Radziner, one of our favorite architecture firms - all good things really are connected. Needless to say, the fact that they chose to get married in Marfa, Texas is evidence to how fantastic they are. Robin had passed through Marfa, many years ago, while interning at Dell Computers in Austin. Somehow he ended up giving a German hitch hiker a lift to the boarder, and being a long time Donald Judd fan, he had to make the pilgrimage. After seeing the pictures of those perfect concrete rectangular forms in the context of the west Texas desert, I fell in love with Marfa, myself. It took our dear friend Jeanne’s wedding us to make the journey (thank you, Jeanne and Jason). It’s hard to put into words how inspiring this place is. I saw the most impactful and inspiring art of my life, which had a lot to do with the setting and the permanence of the installations. The short story of Marfa: the artist Donald Judd came to Marfa create art in a desert landscape. In 1976, with the help of the Dia Foundation, he bought an old Army Fort, restored it and created installations specifically for the space. His art is still there today - concrete structures in the fields and aluminum structures in the vast, brilliant and naturally lit interiors of the armory.