Back Forty

Four impossibly small cows graze across a pasture contained within a single curved pottery fragment. Back Forty reduces the scale of the Southern landscape without losing its familiarity—a quiet stretch of green, a few cows, and the kind of ordinary view that becomes part of how we remember a place.

Year: 2026
Medium: Oil on historic pottery fragment
Pottery: Albany-slipped stoneware, primarily c. 1880–1920
Locality: Eastern Shore, Mobile Bay, Ala.
Framed dimensions: 13.5 x 13.5 in.
Original artwork: One of a kind