Born in the U.S.A.
oil on canvas, 120×120 cm.

After the Bruce Springsteen album of the same name, original cover photograph by Annie Leibovitz.

If the Pink Floyd mash-up, Prism Wall Immolation, was a bridge, then Born in the U.S.A. is the first step onto new soil, which is a figurative and literal coincidence. The color palette of Annie Leibovitz’ photograph lent itself greatly to diminishing the visibility of the central imagery and producing the type of foggy perspective one might see through the bottle glass common to architecture of a certain era in great, American, industrial cities like Detroit, Chicago and Pittsburgh. The abstraction is a statement about Americanism, as are many of the songs in Bruce Springsteen’s oeuvre.