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.