The context of my work stems from the foundation of Native American topics, land based issues and the integral use of mapping as a tool for segregation and coding, as well as the interaction of the institutional space and its devices of display. While consistently a painter, I have played with other media to see how the collection of data has been extrapolated and reconstructed into various forms which interact and portray different value systems within the confines of art as an object and the subjective role of the viewer as well as the existence of the work as a mode of display.