In This Land, Ben Buswell continues his exploration of how identity is shaped by place, perception, and historical context. Drawing on Fernando Pessoa’s idea that seeing one’s own reflection is both unnatural and troubling, Buswell presents a mirrored floor installation that, despite its reflective surface, refuses to show the viewer their own image. This absence becomes a powerful metaphor: rather than offering a clear sense of self, the work asks us to consider how we are formed through our environments and the systems we exist within. Alongside this, a series of photographic works transforms state data points, such as violence rates, income levels, and federal funding, into visual language through simple physical gestures. For Buswell, the self is neither entirely separate from nor wholly defined by its surroundings. Instead, he suggests identity is formed through the tension between connection and disconnection, through empathy and shared experience. In This Land, the landscape resists being a backdrop or possession. It demands we look outward as a way to understand ourselves, and invites us to reframe reflection as an opportunity to encounter something beyond the self.