Whereas the historical paintings in Creating Spaces show the land as it was being settled and changed, somewhat closer to how it looks today, the very contemporary photographs presented in the Interior Gallery, as elements of an installation, ironically show the prairie as it might have looked over one hundred years ago.

Therefore, the interplay between the paintings and the photographs reveal how an artist can vanish the unwanted from a view, and fashion it the way a community may want it to look like. The land is always being altered, back and forth, in physical or illusory ways, thus revealing how, in both art and life, we always hold the destiny of the land in our hands.

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