{"id":108303,"date":"2026-01-22T06:42:18","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T06:42:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/108303\/"},"modified":"2026-01-22T06:42:18","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T06:42:18","slug":"an-artist-seeks-reinvention-by-living-off-the-grid-in-far-west","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/108303\/","title":{"rendered":"An Artist Seeks Reinvention by Living Off the Grid in \u201cFar West\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"has-dropcap has-dropcap__lead-standard-heading paywall\">Lala Abaddon doesn\u2019t have an address. Her home, made from scratch, sits off a rocky road, deep in the desert mountains of the American West. \u201cI wrote the realtor, and he thought I was crazy,\u201d Abaddon recalls, about choosing the remote land. She made the move after feeling overwhelmed and depressed while living in New York City, where she was working as an artist. She wanted a big project, and to disconnect from technology. Her secluded home provided both. Throughout the years, she has built up a rugged little homestead\u2014complete with a menagerie of animals and a skyscape like nothing she had imagined in her old life. In Stephen Michael Simon\u2019s documentary short \u201cFar West,\u201d Abaddon talks about the transformative power of solitude, and about the hardships, friendships, and mistakes that she encountered as she rebuilt her day-to-day existence with an entirely new focus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lala Abaddon doesn\u2019t have an address. Her home, made from scratch, sits off a rocky road, deep in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":108304,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[3456,48787,48788,749,6548,9,24,55,54,56],"class_list":["post-108303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-artists","tag-desert","tag-escape","tag-film","tag-moving","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-ny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108303\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}