THE LAND!!  McCormick's work is rooted in it.  Human presence is vestigial and apocryphyl but never marginal. Man's mark is everywhere, but the ascent to the pinnacle ends with a big drop;  Man's vanity,  Man's futility!!  Set against the fundamental forces of nature, the human enterprise is transient; the imprint no more permanent than a footprint.
Hang out the clothes to dry, build your monuments, remember the dead ...  make your mark, mere bleeps in the relentless passage of time.  TIME, the mortalising force that the whole of the human enterprise has to reckon with, and against which our own degradation of the natural environment has to be measured.
                              McCormick's work sounds the alarm ...                    ... TIME IS RUNNING OUT !!