Foregrounding sculptural objects with a painted landscape backdrop was a recurring interest throughout Roger Brown's career, beginning as early as the late 1960s, just out of art school. Brown put the technique on pause throughout most of the 1970s before creating this piece in the late 1970s as one of the first "sculpture-paintings" of his mature artistic period, nearly a decade before he would even develop the term "Virtual Still Life," for the body of work he spent much of his late-career focused on. This exploration of foreground/background dynamics speaks to Brown's expansive interest in artificiality, including the pretense of theater, and the theatricality of kitsch. Its title referencing Oregon specifically, this piece also ties into Brown's lifelong wanderlust, and particular fascination with the American landscape and unique cultural development across the country.