art DOUG AITKEN new horizon, 2019: a mirrored hot-air balloon crossed the massachusetts landscape, landing in several sites, transforming at night into a luminous sculpture and gathering place to share ideas and provoke questions interview by OLIVIER ZAHM all pictures NEW HORIZON, 2019, by DOUG AITKEN, COURTESY OF THE ARTIST OLIVIER ZAHM — Were you born in California? DOUG AITKEN — Yes, in Los Angeles. OLIVIER ZAHM — Underground culture in California has often been connected to environmental issues. It’s a place where artists are more sensitive to nature, maybe? DOUG AITKEN — On the West Coast, there’s a sense of openness — a kind of vastness. And in a very short time, you can be in the desert, at the ocean, or in the mountains. That plays a large role in the creativity that comes from here. OLIVIER ZAHM — At the same time, America has this ideology of…