My earliest concerns in art were with my Australian suburban home and the iconic and symbolic quality of the then ubiquitous television antennae and lopped street trees in that environment, both seemingly competing for visual dominance over the wide horizon. Relocating to Houston Texas in 1994 provided me with a striking contrast. Here the wide horizon was fractured into fleeting glimpses between the concrete of bridges and freeway overpasses. These towering enclosing structures were utterly new to my eyes and represented all the disorientation and alienation I initially felt as a stranger in a strange land. Exploring the representation of the American landscape as depicted by the nineteenth century Hudson River School artists began for me a process of attempting to reconcile the facts of the urban and suburban environment with my romantic longing for beauty and pristine nature.