His artwork depicts both of these geographical areas because he is drawn to the community similarities he observes. He compares the declining family farm to the end of the industrial era in America's cities. He feels that a "landscape" in the traditional sense no longer exists. The landscape has become a "constructed landscape" in the sense that land of the twentieth century became dominated by "constructions" such as cellular telephone communication towers and suburban sprawl. Tom's paintings depict the compromise with which the contemporary landscape must deal.