In October 2025, I was invited to be the inaugural artist in residence representing Denver for the Westbound: Art by Train residency. This residency placed artists on the historic California Zephyr, a train known historically as an observational travel experience, moving people from Chicago to San Francisco. The residency itself based each artist's experience on the amount of time they spent on the train, mine at just under 8 hours. My strong artistic observation practice allowed me to explode through collages, polaroids, observational drawings and rubbings, creating numerous works that layered archival material with real time thoughts. Once I arrived at my destination, I installed all the work as a larger collage on the walls of an abandoned train depot, once again collaborating with the sense of previous existence.