This work began in continuation of an investigation begun in earlier works into the role of the artist and how that role is shaped by media and power structures that have developed in contemporary society. The result is a half facetious, half sincere story of friendship as narrated by Werner Herzog. My stance is that while we without a doubt must question the messages we receive via media, works that are not oppositional or rebellious by the standards of the dominant discourses in today's art and media theory should not be rejected by default. I use common tropes of contemporary art and its discourse (like figuration, performance, representation of the artist herself, a romanticized landscape, etc.) paradox, humor, fictive personas, melodrama, self-reference and self-mockery to express this stance. The characters themselves are references to drawings I did at Moore, as though my portfolio were one so well recognized, like a Rembrandt referencing an earlier Rembrandt, so as to support the potency of the reference