"I have had a long standing interest in landscape painting as a locus for reflecting on current events, my personal history and the potential for narrative in painting. Most recently I have turned to my Mexican heritage as a source for inspiration for a new body of work titled “Dioses de los Pochos.” This series focuses on surreal scenes of invented deities resurrected from ruin. Pochos is a term describing Mexican-Americans who are neither entirely Mexican or American. They may feel disconnected to Mexico but not wholly American either. They live straddling the two cultures, perhaps creating a third in the process. Similarly the deities in the series “Dioses de los Pochos” exist in liminal worlds. Inspired by the archeology of Mesoamerican figures, they come to life in dream like landscapes where they are neither dead nor alive. Out of the ruins of their previous existence, these new gods embrace their ambiguity, existing somewhere between memory and imagination."

"I have had a long standing interest in landscape painting as a locus for reflecting on current events, my personal history and the potential for narrative in painting. Most recently I have turned to my Mexican heritage as a source for inspiration for a new body of work titled “Dioses de los Pochos.” This series focuses on surreal scenes of invented deities resurrected from ruin. Pochos is a term describing Mexican-Americans who are neither entirely Mexican or American. They may feel disconnected to Mexico but not wholly American either. They live straddling the two cultures, perhaps creating a third in the process. Similarly the deities in the series “Dioses de los Pochos” exist in liminal worlds. Inspired by the archeology of Mesoamerican figures, they come to life in dream like landscapes where they are neither dead nor alive. Out of the ruins of their previous existence, these new gods embrace their ambiguity, existing somewhere between memory and imagination."