Vernon Fisher is the most prominent artist to bring a Postmodernist sensibility to Texas art. He explores narrative forms using images and text with a remarkable sense of poetry and an endless appetite for formal experimentation. Movements among the Dead is from a series of blackboard paintings that combine found and trompe l'oeil (fool-the-eye) imagery. Fisher is drawn to the blackboard, a familiar classroom tool, because of its ability to both record and erase quick notations and doodles. For Fisher, the blackboard represents the instability of meaning; it functions as a repository for conflicting and overlapping memories, emotions, and recollections. Fisher visualizes these thought processes by replicating the chalky erasure residue.