Joel Daniel Phillips’ Then Your Prairies Can Be Covered With Speckled Cattle is a stop-motion video built from his meticulous charcoal and graphite drawings, reproduced and animated to confront a violent chapter in U.S. history. Drawing from 19th-century government rhetoric advocating for the mass slaughter of buffalo as a means to starve Indigenous peoples into submission, the work exposes how policy, profit, and genocide intertwined on the western plains. Through haunting, hand-rendered imagery, Phillips reanimates words once used to justify erasure, asking viewers to reckon with their enduring legacy. Courtesy of the Denver Art Museum.