In a new film from our New York Close Up series, Louise Despont, a New York-born artist now working in Bali, shares how her adopted island home shapes her intensive practice, informing the devotional, meditative, and fragile elements of her drawings. “I know that the most important thing to make good work is time and space,” says the artist, “and living in Bali, that’s where I was going to have the most of it.”