This series of charcoal drawings, completed during a weekend in September, show the landscape of a family farm and a nearby town in Ohio. As a draftsman with a painter's eye, meaning I look for flat, two-dimensional shapes, my aim is to simplify a picture-plane's composition so as to create an image that is more true to the amount of visual information an eye and brain can process. In other words, the human mind is not as perceptive as one would think. If one focuses on a single point within a viewing range, all the other visual information in the peripheral becomes interlocking, nondescript shapes.