To create ‘How the West Was Won’, Jonah King collaborated with California residents Joseph Wilson and Richard Morgan, two self-proclaimed avid golfers and Donald Trump supporters. King invited Wilson and Morgan to play a game of golf across the expansive western Mojave desert, which King documented. The documentation from the collaboration ultimately became this three-channel video.

How the West Was Won’ shares the title of the 1962 ultra-widescreen American western film, which opens with this narration: “This land has a name today and is marked on maps. But the names and the marks and the land all had to be won. Won from nature and from primitive man”. This film and unnerving quote about westward expansion contextualizes the entire exhibition—not just in the artwork’s content but also its mediums. For instance, King’s stunning ultra-wide video projection directly references the format of the original film, but in the place of gallant cowboys trailblazing the West there are two older white men, in casual sports attire, playing an eternal round of golf in the middle of the Mojave Desert—a foreboding foreshadow of the consequences of climate change. Like two ghosts, the golfers seem to be forever destined to haunt the barren landscape, not with rattling chains, but with swinging golf clubs.

Jonah King: How the West Was Won’ is currently on view. Galleries are open Thursday through Sunday from 10 to 5. Admission is free.