Thesis: Thornton Dial’s artwork invites the viewer to reexamine the importance of insignificant, everyday objects through his use of mixed media.

The background is comprised of small wooden blocks that roughly form outlines of one-story houses. There are five houses in all, each possessing a small cloth bundle in the center. From left to right, the colors of the houses are yellow, orange, purple, orange, and red. In between the houses are bits of painted cloth, metal wiring, and thick layers of light blue paint. This mixture of material continues into the middle, creating a frenzy of texture and color. The middle ground has a focal point made of rusty orange and dark purple painted cloth that stretches across the bottom wooden blocks of