This simple installation contained some of the objects I have used in previous works of art. It also gives reference to me as a “western” artist, capturing a new aesthetic, and exploring, questioning, and critiquing yet another form of Manifest Destiny. Included are a ponderosa pine staff, used for gathering and guiding ideas; a rope, for lassoing and binding those ideas together; a leather glove, once used by a logger, given as a gift to me as a artist; an artist’s smock, used like chaps for protection; and a General 6B charcoal pencil, the tool used to draw a true and pure implied line at the heart of the deer—capturing its spirit.