Stuck in my hometown called Sugar Land, I've decided to do some digging and awe-ing at this marvelous old company town. What will come of it will be my new body of work. I want to embrace Sugar Land as it was before it became a true city in 1959. It started out solely as a residental town built for its workers. But what remains today are neighborhoods for workers of the greater Houston area. Sugar Land is only expanding much more west. The land that used to be all farm, just a decade ago, is slowing becoming a cookie-cutter village with the opening of numerous Walmarts, Targets, and Arbys. My cherished image of a railroad train moving amongst the abyss of flat land and sunset horizon will soon be dust.
I took some photos to start my project (paintings):
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