"In executing this huge canvas entirely out-of-doors, I wanted, beyond portrait of place, my mind's abstract sense of surface design to masquerade as landscape, and vice versa, keeping the two in tension. And so evolved a screen of cottonwoods veiled in the spring forth of buds, marching across horizontals of plains and foothills in a geometric grid just shy of symmetry... leaping from my perch on a high cliff over waterways and city grids to the snow-capped Rocky Mountains, so essentially the Colorado experience."