The gently sloping, earthy terrain of the Nebraska plains provided inspiration for Elizabeth J. Peak’s large and captivating color etching, whose vastness and quietness so effectively evoke the lonely expanses of the American Midwest. Though printed from just three copperplates using only three pigments—Prussian blue, cadmium yellow, and alizarin crimson—Peak’s composition is awash in a spectrum of color, achieved through the overlapping of the inks during printing and through the artist’s exploitation of the white of the paper support. Peak works on her copperplates like drawings, adding and subtracting, which gives Roller Coaster Road the spontaneous look of a watercolor or monotype.