I use the Pony Express as a metaphor to comment on how we’ve arrived at our civilization’s current condition. The Pony Express was a 19th century horseback mail delivery and relay system. It lasted only 18 months but is considered to have furthered European, Puritan and Manifest Destiny philosophies. It set in motion an emphasis on ‘faster, bigger, better, never stop’, concepts that remain constants in our postmodern cultural landscape. Moderbacher explains, “My work has shifted to a concern about the environment, global climate change, extinction of species – palm trees growing on icebergs; these become natural and logical to my way of thinking.”