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The landscapes depicted in Impermanent Lines include the Kaw (Kansas) River, the city of Lawrence, Kansas, the Baker Wetlands in Lawrence, Kansas, the Konza Prairie Biological Station in Manhattan, Kansas, and the Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve and town of Matfield Green in Chase County, Kansas. The prints were created at the John Talleur Print Studio in the Spring of 2016 during a residency at the Lawrence Arts Center, in Lawrence, Kansas. The book was bound in the winter of 2024 in Easthampton, Massachusetts.

Lawrence, Kansas and the Flint Hills occupy the traditional, ancestral, and unceded lands of Indigenous Peoples. The area has been home to numerous Indigenous Nations going back thousands of years, and also to many tribes relocated to and through the area by force over the last several hundred years due to settler colonialism. These nations have included the Kaw, Osage, Pawnee, Wichita and Shawnee as well as the four federally recognized Tribal Nations present in Kansas today: the Prairie Band Potawatomi, Kickapoo, Sac and Fox, and Iowa.