Landmark

One telltale phrase unique to American
politics is the term "fly-over country".
This is the ignored landscape which politicians
fly over when returning to the big cities where
their power is wielded. Rural tracts of farmland,
sparsely populated swamps, mountains, and deserts
contain too few constituants to be taken seriously,
except during campaign season. The occupants of this
"fly-over country" are therefore out of sight and
out of mind.

In this work, I see the patchwork quilt of sectioned
farmland spread out across the terra, and this
vast politically ignored mass of humanity as a
vital living colossus.