Growing up in Kansas was fun and isolated at the same time. Kansas has about the population as the Salt Lake City Metro and is basically a bunch of farm fields. Where I used to live in Kansas was outside in the Country around corn and Wheatfields on a beaten Dirt Road. Living out in the middle of who knows where was strange as a child and I always dreamed of living in a city. My picture represents some things in Kansas that I dramatized but are in a sense true. Ray's of Despair is very much true, when you live in Kansas it's not hard to feel how hot or cold it always is. Kansas weather was always changing and did so rapidly. One day you could go from a warm cloudy day to hail and snow that night. There was always the fear of a Tornado too. Phil the pedophile was a more of a joke but living in the middle of nowhere you never knew who was out there or what could happen to you. Around my house, there was a lot of deer and animals because I lived so close to the Arkansas River. The Animal Kingdom stretches that idea, and it wasn't rare to see deer around there or even accidentally hit one when it was pitch black. The Dunes were representing the drainage ditch that went of the Arkansas River because of the rapid weather and they were always full of dead stuff and thorns. Slippery Swamp was picturing the Arkansas River, it was always at really low levels for most of the year especially summer and so it was almost like a flowing swamp. The Dungeon represented home from the perspective of a child, as a kid, I was always getting in trouble for really dumb reasons.