Big green tropical leaves, papayas
the size of soccer balls, women and men dancing in the streets, salty turquoise
water, those are some of the memories I have as a child growing up in Latin America.
Those memories, the colors of the human condition, the colors of the land filter
into my work but always with a slight twist.
Addressing landscape at its oddest moments, creating a believable but strange
'Audubonesque' view of nature in all its peculiarities is what excites my curiosity.
Using Styrofoam and rubber as my primary materials I created "Spring".
"Spring" is a nine and a half foot tree. Styrofoam was cut into leaf
shapes, colored, then dipped in rubber making the leaves look both luscious and
edible. Branches are adorned with rubber pods and hybrid bugs. "Summer",
is a rubber lawn, standing five and a half feet high in a welded 'planter'. The
height of the 'planter box' examines a 'new' horizon line. Bugs fly slightly above
the lawn's surface. "Winter" , is a grouping of suspiciously preserved
looking snowballs.
Questioning nature, the natural and the not so natural, functions as my pivot
point. The shift that begins, then changes to an 'other", that state of entropy
channels the work. Hybrids, skewed perspectives and humor add to the unstable
issues of nature.