Art Farm Motel is a large and loose art collective founded by Tony Speirsand Lisa Beerntsen of Graton, Ca. “Portrait of a Girl” is a 8ft x 12ft detail of a room-sized installation (8 feet by 39 feet) called “The Game of Hope or Fear”, created for the 2006 Burning Man festival. The Art Farm artists (more than 60 participants including the East Bay’s Gary Amaro, Claire Cotts, Erik Friedman, Lauren Ari, and Mike Terry) contributed the thousands of drawings that became the paintings’ background, drawing images of either a hopeful or fearful nature. The 2006 Burning Man theme was “The Future: Hope or Fear?” Speirs designed a 16-foot-long, playable game board, (”The Game of Hope or Fear”) flanked by portraits of a girl and a boy, who represent both the players of the game as well as the future.  The resulting three-panel piece was hung in a room just below the Burning Man sculpture at the 2006 festival.