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I was raised by a television in suburban America. One of my first memories is the colors of the cereal aisle flashing by as I rode in my mom's grocery cart I'm more likely to notice an ad on the side of the highway than the forest behind it.

What has become visual white noise to most people is what I'm interested in. Strip malls full of franchises, endless arrays of products and packaging, anything to isolate us from the unfamiliar. I think that these mundane things that have so completely saturated our lives have inherent moments of value. Painting them shows us something about who we are, what our values are, and what's surprisingly acceptable and eerily beautiful.

Jason Chase