Quote from the Bronx Art Exhange Blog Review of Looking In/Looking Out at The Bronx Art Space, November 2013
"Another stand out piece is Melissa Cowper-Smith’s, Arkansas Landscape a digital animation involving layering and freeze frame techniques to render a mélange of imagery that is transparently layered over one another... The layered and disappearing landscapes with setting suns, ethereal clouds, trees, snow, mountains—all appearing and then fading away evoke a powerful melancholy of longing and nostalgia."