This group of paintings and drawings reimagines the form and metaphor of late-20th century American figures and events - Theodore Roosevelt (the Warrior-Preacher naturalist); Buffalo Bill (Western folk hero and exterminator of Native Americans and Buffalo alike); and The 'White City' (the World's Fair Columbian exposition in Chicago in 1893). The historical figures and events share virtuous and contemptible ideas and actions - the figures are not entirely heroic or evil, but some combination of the two. This grey area of morality is what I seek to represent - our history as a country. How do these figures that were exalted in the past (and some still in the present) reflect our own simultaneous combination of good and bad desires and actions? We are fascinated, repulsed and magnetically drawn to these figures who exert power for war and peace, personal gain and common good.