Loyal
Our country is theoretically divided into "Blue States" and "Red States," but this broad division has very little reflection in reality. Loyal, a town of 70 in Western Oklahoma, is the home of politically active Democrats and successful small farmers – a vanishing breed we are told by popular media. In reality, small farmers on the increase not the decrease. Loyal is a predominantly German-American town in the Cheyenne-Arapaho Reservation, so I am interested in the interplay of different groups in the area and in the interactions between humans and the land. Different vernacular styles of painting, from Realism to a modified version of the Southern Plains flat style of painting, become different lenses in which to explore the stories and spirit of the land.
