The installation Commons designed and installed by Bozeman, MT artist Terry Karson is an approach that deals with every point of view in a selected space. The surface is comprised of cardboard packaging, which has been meticulously collected, precisely cut, sanded, and assembled in a patchwork of panels and columns. Karson has a mosaic approach with a material that is not normally associated with mosaic. The resulting surface communicates not just a feeling of wear and tear but reveals a surface and form which has withstood relentless pressure. The sanding removes the literal advertising and leaves all but a remnant of the image, perhaps random arrangements of advertising color. It is an abstraction.