Drawing from old Western films, documentaries, and found footage, Mariel Capanna snatches images as they flit across the screen, transcribing them onto canvas and meshing the background of the Western plain, the campsite, or the winding road with fragments of everyday life: a laundry line, a passing car, a barbed-wire fence. These constituent parts come together in spaces that feel simultaneously intact and fractured, up close and drifting further away and out of sight.
