With Out Land to Defend, 2003: I wanted to paint a solider that was either at the top or the bottom. Did he have no land to defend because he had won it all? Or did he have no land because he lost it?

 

Study for Paris Review, Woodford Vermont, 2003: I wanted to make a piece that showed the exact moment in which a soldier's life was taken.

 

Alte Heimat (The Old Country), 2003: This piece was started on an emotionaly hard day for myself and I wanted to do a work that was as depressing as I could. The middle solider is looking right out at the viewer, almost asking 'why not you? The title came when I realized that I did a terrible job of drawing the feet of one of the dead soldiers and that it looked like an early Georg Baselitz painting.