Note from the artist  -  This piece comes from a series titled: White Picket Fences - Discourses on American Dreams. It is a series I created using only salvaged materials: old fencing removed from parts of the property where I lived at the time. The material itself shifted the nature and direction of my work, while still allowing various idioms from previous paintings to be evident. This series addresses the collective and personal myths our culture has created in regard to home/place, and in extension to land. It looks to confront what we in the West deem to be Nature and our disconnection, not only with "It", but with ourselves. These pieces, individually and collectively, cross the borders/boundaries we create/build, and purposely choose to hide or show, depending upon what side of the fence one is standing, various perspectives and vantage points that create, both figuratively and metaphorically, a new myth. This body of work strives to actively embody the dismantling and deconstruction of our culture myths through and in the forms/images themselves. While also looking to transform and reconstruct the notion of interior and exterior spaces, be they felt, thought or experienced. And calls for the dissemination of our identity through the transmutation of material and idea. I have chosen to take down these white washed myths, bathe in our dirty floodwaters, and sift through the tangled wreckage to create a place to once again connect with.