Tres Pueblos, Paradise Lost, Eden Summit, Deadfall / Ravine and Declining Landscape

Wood, Foam and Model Turf, 2016

12″ x 12″ x 12″ each

These works approach terrain through fragmentation and scale as both a conceptual strategy and a personal gesture. The work isolates narrow sections of landscape, compressing vast environments into concentrated visual units where surface, light, and color carry disproportionate weight. This attention to the miniature draws on landscape as a site of study and perception, where small fragments can hold memory, duration, and narrative density without relying on panoramic description. Embedded within this structure is a quiet ode to a familial lineage of making. The project is informed by the influence of a forebear who spent most of his life working in a toy factory and producing work outside formal artistic institutions. His relationship to craft, repetition, and scale resonates in the way these landscapes are handled, where careful construction and modest dimensions invite sustained attention. By weaving personal inheritance into an inquiry of landscape and perception, the work positions making as both an inherited sensitivity and a critical tool, allowing intimate gestures to operate within broader discourses of place, memory, and artistic labor.