The exalted language of epic literature, 20th century manifestos, real estate signs and sheet music covers provide the inspiration for my current work. Based in oral culture, these texts often glorify the expedited prime of their respective cultural moments. The tone is grand and often celebratory. My carved and painted leather works depict our final basking in the spoils of an economy based in the doctrines of manifest destiny. Because supremacy is rapidly transforming from reality to memory, the syntax of nostalgia is heavily present while the leather provides a premise of loss.