More often than not, I feel discomfort writing up pithy project descriptions (that's not to say I don’t like reading them or find them unneeded). I have great difficulty writing them, thus avoiding them at all cost. So, with that in mind, Rio Bravo, Playing on the Big Screen is a line pulled directly from Gus Van Sant's My Own Private Idaho. Moreover, several of the photo titles in this collection are also related to the film. For example, Solid-color Screen 1 & 2 are references to the intro and outro cards of the film. A Face to Remember is a spin on Mike Waters’s line, “a fucked up face.” Despite my stating these connections outright, my intention is not to render the links as purely aesthetic choices, but instead, to make them known. There is much about Eastern WA that feels wholly alone. The Idaho panhandle is, in many ways, too alone—lost to time. [Mike falls asleep.] The roads running from Seattle move dead-straight for Montana—along the northern border—crawling over vast emptinesses and slopping hills of big sagebrush. [Mike wakes up, alone and in some new place, having dreamt of somewhere safe.]