Signal A Running Record of Findings from the Internet / August 5, 2026

Searching for Truth on the Set of "The X-Files"

In the early 2000s, photographer John Divola talked his way onto the abandoned soundstages of The X-Files, drawn to the seam between manufactured illusion and the ordinary machinery that built it.

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John Divola, from the series X-Files, Fox Studios, Los Angeles, 2002
John Divola, from the series X-Files, Fox Studios, Los Angeles, 2002
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