The Daniels and Cosgrove article connected Andrew and Betsy Wyeth for me. The line, “A landscape is a cultural image” (Daniels & Cosgrove,1) shows that both Wyeth’s are interested in creating cultural images. However, Betsy uses the physical landscape as her medium while Andrew uses the canvas. Both seem to have ideas not only about the physical landscapes and the larger historical significance that landscape holds. This means that their own cultural understandings are embedded in their work. While this allows them to create evocative images of landscape, for Betsy, it physicalizes her cultural understanding of the landscape, in this case, nature, the Mid-Maine coast and Allen and Benner Island themselves. While humans have a long history of viewing paintings critically, we do not have a history of looking at the cultural implications of landscape as someone’s vision. This gives Betsy and her vision power because she is modifying and creating a piece of art that is not looked at as art or construction as much. She is able to present her vision of natural beauty which is counterintuitive to our conception of nature. On the other hand, there are few places in nature that have never been touched or effected by humans. This means that her work calls into question how we conceive and perceive nature by, purposefully or inadvertently, showing the subjective nature of the natural world.