Headlands' current artists-in-residence are disparate interpreters of the American Gothic aesthetic. Under his various monikers, troubadour Will Oldham uses American vernacular music — blues, country, rock — as a loose platform for cryptic songs of quiet desperation and mad love. Photographer David Maisel studies landscapes of a different sort, focusing on the perverse beauty in industrially wrought enviornmental devastation. His often-aerial camera captures fields, lakes, and estuaries that have been turned into melted ice-cream swirls of toxicity. Tonight's talk offers a chance to speak with both Oldham and Maisel, and to touch on the heart of darkness that animates their work.