Railroad ties were used many years ago to build a storage shed by a farmer trying to establish a living in what was then one of the last unestablished areas of the United States in Ruby Valley, east of the Ruby Mountains in Northern Nevada. They still stand in use today and bear the weathered marks of time.
I wanted to show the weathered quality of the barn, and was drawn immediately to this corner. The flowing lines and fading colors display along with the large hand pounded nails show what the barn has gone through and express a part of the spirit of the west that still is present there.
