Lookers 2012 Series : No image is off limits, at least not now. We are able to experience anyplace in the world through a simple Google search. In the time from which these images were taken, the only way to experience a place was to actually go there, or experience it vicariously through the pages of National Geographic. These excursions to the Great West were afforded to those small percentage of Americans with vacation budgets. In this series, I painted over the part of the image that the viewers are looking at, drawing attention to the object yet denying the viewer access to it. We are looking at people looking at things, yet neither of us know exactly what that is, just a vague silhouette of flattened color space. The work shows a removal or erasure of the natural subject, the object of wonder, yet we are still left in a kind of awe at the weird colored spectacle before us.