From there, I try to answer the question: what then is the role of the artist in a national park? And I discovered that it changes throughout time:

Native Americans, prior to white settlers, left behind pictographs in the mountains. While we might consider it artwork now, they created it for advertisement (i.e. good hunting at next river!). If you look closely, Bob, Wayne and Ione left behind some graffiti in 1946, but I’m curious if we’ll view it as art in another 500 years…