Building on one of the longest-standing traditions of imagemaking –applying ink, by hand, to paper– I attempt to distill the aesthetic and visceral experience of a boundless sprawl into vivid graphics. These landscapes are essentialized as chaotic growth, often altered by human or other intervention. Everything in them whether constructed or sprung from the earth, joins the tangle of disparate elements that make the natural world. Through the carefully detailed rendering of limbs and branches, my art seeks to capture the spectacular pantomime of this process. Greater emphasis is placed on the gesture of these landscape elements than the scenes than they eventually compose. They resist the pastoral landscape which draws the viewer in, and instead present these elements as stark icons that hold them at a distance.