On set portraits and landscapes in the Badlands of the forty cast 'n' crew of the indie film "Sanctified," drawn in a Dollar General sketchbook purchased when sent on a blood-run to Belfield to get red dish soap, red food coloring and corn syrup.

The three, torn-paged female drawings are from a prop built on set by Production Designer, Dean Bellin — Technical Theatre professor at Bismarck State College — with scissors, worn paper and string when director, Nickolaus Swedlund, suggested I be "doing something" leading up to the big gun fight; asking to sketch a nude reminiscent of "Titanic." With no cell service for reference, luckily I had a field journal from last summer on a father-son road trip through the Dakotas with a watercolor study of the Muse "Vision" from the interior dome of Pierre's Capitol we spent an afternoon touring.

I imagine Cutthroat Clint clutching the paper scrap evoking Vision in his final scene saying, “Muse, sing in me and through me tell the story of that man skilled in all ways of contending, the wanderer...harried for years on end.”