DURING 2021, roughly 1,773 wildfires burned across Arizona. That year, in early July, the artist Scott Covert and his traveling companion, the filmmaker Lex Niarchos, were driving through the state. They were going to Pinal Cemetery, located near the tiny burg of Superior, so that Covert could do a rubbing of the headstone that belonged to the “Bandit Queen” Pearl Hart, one of the last known stagecoach robbers of the Old West. One night, the two encountered a roadside memorial comprising a humble crucifix with some blue LED lights wrapped around it. Niarchos captured the modest structure in a
Amy Winehouse, James Dean, Nikita Khrushchev … Scott Covert takes rubbings at big names’ graves, often getting chased away. ‘It breaks my heart,’ he says, ‘when I hear someone’s been cremated’
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