Civilization

"The landscapes in my art are a reflection of the culmination of experiences in agricultural America. These experiences started as a child driving on trips to my grandma's cousin's farms across Minnesota and as an adult, hunting as a falconer in the open fields along railroad tracks where various brush piles, that we called ""The Islands"" would house rabbits we sought to hunt. My art is a personal story narrative of my life in Minnesota via childhood or focusing on places where I currently live. The Crop Circle landscape Abstract of Civilization is
pulled from memories of my life in Wabasha Minnesota specifically during drive times between islands described in the poem:
Atolls riding seas of blackened earth, farm islands dot the flat plain sky to sky, their shimmering silo sentinels securing rocky banks, their woody canopies sheltering against both sun and storm.
This describes my voyage as I captained my ship between the islands on the agricultural landscape of Minnesota."