This suite of paintings examines a recently retired and environmentally problematic landfill located very near my home in rural Humboldt County, California. The site's graceful topography and curvilinear hillocks belie its creation by bulldozer and backhoe. Intricate infrastructural elements (wells, pipes, pumps, valves, and the like) regulate the roiling and potentially volatile activities beneath ground—meanwhile managing to preserve the presumed serenity of the surface.
