"Each of the photographs in this show portrays the spirit of the original New Topographers.  However, it would be short sighted to imagine nothing has changed in the new topographic depiction of landscape since 1975.  Where once industrial buildings were directly positioned against the backdrop of the natural landscape, marking a tension between the natural and the man made world, the opportunity for a kind of statement about the uneasiness surrounding the continued rise of industrial and commercial development becomes more tenuous given the current place humans occupy in time.   Instead, the introduction of the pastoral landscape as thought or ideology manifest through the presence of wall murals that suggest something lost and longed for, perhaps lacked, in our lived experiences.  The mural theme marks an interesting shift in the depictions of landscape, one that speaks to a shared sense of loss in the natural world.  If the original new topographers focused on depicting scenes of the industrial asserting itself on to the landscape, then what we can see in these photographs is the ideological and visual fall out of a world that has moved past industrializing and into a world of ever diminishing natural spaces." - Vann Powell