This stretched canvas is a composite of over 80 screenshots displaying northern Texas’s unique agricultural built landscape from above. Here, irrigated crops forming richly varied green circles, and large cattle feedlots forming deep brown spots, along with the more typical middle-American gridded road network lay an abstract patterned mode of production atop a rather unforgivingly harsh natural condition. It is within this highly peripheral location that the North American agro-industrial complex takes on its most absurd and perhaps most beautiful shapes (at least from above). Oddly, I have always enjoyed situating this image next to a dining room, making the connection between primary source and ultimate point of consumption explicitly apparent.



