A NOD TO GEORGE LUCAS, RALPH McQUARRIE, AND THE ORIGINAL TEAM AT ILM –

It is practically impossible now, 40-plus years after the fact, to describe the precise cultural context in which the first "Star Wars" appeared. But to a futureless teen, flailing amidst the harvest gold smog, and failed post-war ideals, that constituted Los Angeles in the late '70s, the film arrived itself like a ship from a galaxy far, far away.... strange, yet familiar – a wondrously plausible, kitbashed bricolage of novel contrasts, that I would argue constituted one of the first great works of the postmodernist era. The revelations of that first film have continued to inform my work ever since. For that initial inspiration – and the countless joys that have followed in its wake – I will forever be grateful.