"....the sequence can involve much routine trial-and-error. Such maps of topography, however technical in execution, will continue to remain the constructs of human vision and judgment."

Dept. of the Interior, US Geological Survey, www.usgs.gov

Liza Phillips's paintings are derived from digital relief maps downloaded from the internet, remapped and enlarged onto panels using an airbrush. The paintings refuse to come into focus for the viewer, forcing an unresolvable abstract/topo-graphical view of the earth and an uneasy alliance of depiction and abstraction.