This painting frames a Montana prairie through the open door of a freight car, placing industrial geometry against the luminosity of canola fields and distant mountains. The boxcar acts as both barrier and window, creating an ambiguous moment—between motion and stillness, transit and abandonment. The saturated orange of the train intensifies the blue sky and yellow field, emphasizing the tension between constructed space and open land. The work reflects on how we encounter landscape in passing—glimpsed, mediated, and layered with histories of labor and movement.

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