As an increasing number of people look to escape rising house prices and other urban limitations, a community has begun to form in the vast and tranquil landscape around the Mojave Desert in California. Over a period of five years, Zoe Childerley met an unusual group of people there – and the unexpected collaboration that emerged between them became the subject of her book.
Childerley opens Dinosaur Dust with a quote from architectural historian Reyner Banham’s 1982 book, Scenes in America Deserta: “In a landscape where nothing officially exists… absolutely anything becomes thinkable and may consequently happen”.