Erika Johnson is a native of Montana's "Big Sky" country, a place that is analogous to Hawaii in terms of its country lifestyles and mana-filled landscapes. Imagine her shock when she moved to the island to attend UH and was not presented with paradise, but confronted with traffic jams, car exhaust, steel, and concrete. In Johnson's work a cow -- is it lost? Paralyzed? stunned? -- is situated in the middle of a downtown Honolulu street. Though the cow can evoke the cherished paniolo culture of Hawaii, here Johnson uses it to stake a claim for and explore difference. Her work, clearly and valuably haole in the true sense of the word, expresses the long-term Hawaii resident's experiences with many of the typically urban problems found in the epicenter of Hawaii's built environment.