_Garden of Infinite Pleasantries at Lemonwheel. Photo by C. Taylor Crothers_

Sculptor Lars Fisk, who has worked with Phish since the ’90s, recently talked with The New York Times about his sparse lifestyle for an article appropriately titled “Phish’s Art Director Calls Four Shipping Containers Home.”

In the article, Fisk and his friend and collaborator Pascal Spengemann, who entered the Phish world with Fisk when the two lived in Vermont, talk about Fisk’s living quarters, which consist of connected shipping containers outfitted with furniture and bare essentials, relating the lifestyle to Fisk’s art, which has graced several of Phish’s festivals.

Fisk recalls working in an office across from the Phish headquarters after graduating from the University of Vermont and quickly beginning to work with the band, including his “Garden of Infinite Peasantries,” at 1998’s Lemonwheel festival.

Phish frontman Trey Anastasio chimes in a quote, discussing Fisk’s installation at the band’s 2011 festival, Superball IX, where Anastasio and company played a secret set inside the artist’s sculpture. “Lars built a large center sculpture out of these storage units,” Anastasio says. “He had been traveling around the country and noticing that there were more and more storage spaces popping up on the landscape. People keep collecting so much junk that they need more and more storage spaces to store it all, until the storage spaces themselves are becoming a new form of junk.”

Read the full article here.