Chip Thomas (jetsonorama)

In the late 1980s, Chip Thomas (jetsonorama) moved to a rural area of the Navajo Nation to work as a physician in a health clinic. He hoped to manage to stay for four years, and fell in love with the land and the people and the culture and stayed for 36 years. Since 2009, he has been installing large-scale photos, pasted onto mostly abandoned buildings along the roadsides on the Navajo Nation, and also across the country and abroad. In April he will install a project on The Lena Wall in Santa Fe. Chip chats with Matthew Chase-Daniel about life and work and history and inspiration.