The Greater Reston Arts Center is located in the metropolitan center of the town where I grew up. Reston, Virginia is a planned residential community and an interesting experiment in suburban development. My fascination with land cultivation and suburban space began in Reston; this exhibition offered me the opportunity to bring my own experiments with suburban space and philosophy back home.

I shared the bill at GRACE with a fantastic artist named Warren Craghead. Warren's work toys with very similar themes, but looks completely different, and it was an exciting honor to share the gallery space with his intricate drawing collages.

GRACE's most bizarre and potent variable, from an exhibition standpoint, is its modular walls, which you can see in this photo. I was allowed to position the walls however I wanted, and the gallery was very supportive of my desire to embellish the walls with spray-painted shapes. The shapes helped to create connections among images that might otherwise appear isolated due to their differences in media or imagery. You can see this at work on the left wall, where Landing Pad and Listen, Kid are clustered with Vast Plan and Potential Lot.