Titled after a phrase from a Victorian carte de visit, this project by Philadelphia-based artist Gerald Nichols provides a comprehensive look at his reverence for a distressed American landscape. Filtered through Nichols' idiosyncratic, associative systems—a sensibility that merges a concern for formal abstraction and art history with the signification and immediacy of vernacular art—this new project was conceived specifically for the gallery and constitutes the artist's first solo exhibition in Philadelphia in nearly a decade.