Trekking through the hills and valleys of High Desert Test Sites in Joshua Tree, California, artist An-My Lê photographs a subject that is new in a career spent documenting militarized landscapes: the night sky. “What’s going on in the world, what’s going on in the United States has been so chaotic and so difficult to understand,” says the artist. “There’s some kind of comfort for me to be looking at the skies. But I think that the sky is still a kind of landscape of conflict.” This documentary short sees the artist return to the site of her 2003–2004 series 29 Palms, to create this new 2026 work, Way Station. In outdoor pavilions at the desert location she is depicting, Lê installs her photographs of the night sky alongside mirrored panels that reflect both the viewer and their surroundings. Contemplating the relationship between photographic representation, natural landscape, and the individual, the artist states, “I’ve always been interested in finding what is fragile within something that is powerful, and monumental, and dominating.”