This series of paintings examine a number of scientific research sites in California’s Mojave National Preserve. The research instrumentation found at these sites—positioned as it is amongst the sweeping grandeur of the east Mojave—can be either highly sophisticated or resourcefully improvised, but all of it possesses uncanny and often contradictory visual complexity. One group of paintings in particular examines an entomological research site where the moisture intake of creosote bushes is monitored and regulated, thereby regulating the reproductive rate of an elusive insect species that breeds on the bushes' branches.