Nature, roads, and signs, rendered predominately in thick, dark oil paint, imply oblique narratives about ecology, the current social political landscape, and autobiography. Untitled, 1988, the earliest painting, a detail from a map dominated by the bright blue ocean between continents, suggests a more optimistic time, and a consistent and sustained interest in place, the world, and the state of the world. Subject matter in later works, the Hudson Valley, where Bordo, a native Canadian, has spent the last 18 years painting and living with his longtime partner and now husband, Donald Mouton, a former dancer, and the drive to New York City, where he continues to teach painting at Cooper Union, becomes specific to the point of abstraction.