Elizabeth on 'Pagoda the Prairie':
When I was making this piece, this shape here and this [gestures to a curved line and a grid made from white tape] reminded me of a Hokusai print that I’d seen. Of course, thinking about modernist painting and references to earlier Asian art made me think about that kind of architecture, too. I thought about how modern architects such as Frank Lloyd Wright took those kinds of structures and kind of dropped them in the middle of the Midwest, which interestingly made sense for the landscape, but also doesn’t make sense at all in some way, and they are hard to live in. So this painting had this kind of [points to the turning/tossing shapes on the canvas], balls of sagebrush and wire.