I make work that explores the construction and representation of the American identity. I am currently most interested in what landscape reveals about American identity, land use, migration, consumption, and economic policy. The work I produce reflects my position as a consumer and producer of American culture, as well as my role as a domestic visitor. These images exist as landscape seen from the road, and reference a constant negotiation between human construction, travel, and a geography formed before an American narrative. In my recent project, Road Trip, densely painted billboard advertisements appear on wooden panels referencing American economic, agricultural and entertainment practice, and contrast with the transparent and sparse Southwestern background. I am attempting to capture the same contrast that Baudrillard writes about when he defines the American miracle as “the profusion of sense, against the deserts of meaninglessness.” This view of the desert seen through road signage reveals a lot about the strange perspective from which Americans experience their environment.