In Tucksmith's painting The Creek, a group of teenagers shares a stream with a gaggle of curious deer at twilight. "I think of [animals] as witnesses," Tucksmith explains. "The first animals I started painting were deer. Driving around here it's impossible to go too long without your headlights flashing in their eyes, and then they freeze. It's almost like a hiccup in time, and their eerie lit up eyes are seeing multiple possibilities at once."