The Childress House was a ranch dwelling on a tract of land that is now part of the Ucross Foundation’s ranch operation. It is surrounded by dry grass covered hills and rarely receives visitors. A coal train passes once or twice a day.

The aged woodwork and cracked, decaying plaster, preserved in the dry atmosphere, color and texture the projected image as they receive it.

Multiple tilted horizons and shifts in scale created a collage of hills or implied islands on three walls of the principal room of the work.

This time lapse shows the effects of changing light and passing weather in one of several varied arrangements that made up the installation.

Another time lapse shows an alternative composition of sky and horizons in changing light.