Andrew’s paintings for Alof derive from the landscape of Minnesota, where he currently lives, and the Inishkea Islands (Irish: Inis Cé), which are situated off the coast of the Belmullet Peninsula in County Mayo, Ireland.

Andrew has been interested in combining abstract values with radical ideas about landscape. The Cornish painter Peter Lanyon (1918–1964) took up gliding as a pastime and used the resulting experience extensively in his paintings in the 1950s and early 1960s. Andrew thought of becoming a pilot using his Kolman & Reeb Gallery Project Space grant but decided against this. He settled on buying a drone.

He has wondered what a particular landscape would look like from above throughout the year. He wanted to show how this extreme viewpoint could be achieved in his paintings by synthesizing aerial vantage points with traditional views from below. Instead of presenting a single scene, he decided to collapse multiple perspectives. He was curious about scale, space, and the surface pattern such a view would produce giving him an extensive knowledge of the landscape. Andrew’s goal is to move towards a new, diverging development in his work.

Andrew used the drone to photograph still and moving images of certain viewpoints from the above-selected urban and rural views. The collected images are the basis for these paintings.