Backroads are often avoided by mainstream traffic, the weathered roads that wind through rural land where cell service is lost and trees outnumber people. For artists Emma Barnes and Aciey Canty the backroads represent the nuances of home, childhood, and the journey between where they are going and coming from. In this Lightning Residency exhibition, both artists approach landscape, home, and rural upbringing with different approaches. Canty applies his lens of black and white photography to capture the beauty in abandoned or forgotten spaces. Barnes pieces together quilt patterns, family photos, plaster and paint in order to navigate time, comfort and change. In Backroads both artists take the retrospective rocky road of reflecting on the parts of themselves that are staying and leaving