Nicholas Ward is a visual artist based in Glenwood Springs, Colorado, whose work reimagines the mythologized narratives of the American West. Through surreal compositions and exaggerated proportions—a monumental hand, a stretched arm, a shrunken head—Ward challenges the romanticized, “Hollywoodized” visions of the frontier that dominate popular culture. His paintings explore the fluid boundary between fact and fiction, examining how history is shaped by storytelling, memory, and the human tendency to embellish. By destabilizing familiar imagery, Ward invites viewers to reconsider the constructed nature of the past and the cultural myths we continue to inherit.