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In 1994, shortly after moving to Commerce, Texas, photographer Rick Vanderpool began a
series of trips that would total over 20,000 miles and 54 days to visit all 254 counties
in Texas. While he photographed anything else that caught his interest – from road kill
and wildflowers, to grand views and tumbleweeds – he was mostly looking for Texas; simply
the word, in all its infinite variety of size, shape, color, style and material. Anywhere.
On anything. And with character – as in worn, weathered, carved, etched, painted, stitched,
tooled, scrawled, scratched or sculpted. From movie marquis, t-shirts and belt buckles;
to barns, ball caps and tattoos.
Selecting from the more than 1,000 images of the state name, Vanderpool fashioned a unique
graphic representation titled "Looking for Texas." He then set about to enlist a couple
dozen other photographers to cover all 50 states in a similar manner. StateArt was born.