View of New York and the George Washington Bridge from Kykuit 2023 graphite on travertine marble, 18 x 48 inches. David Castillo Gallery, Miami
The gesture of reconsidering a journey through time, observing the landscape of New York City from a specific visual point such as the Kykuit estate, home to four generations of the Rockefeller family, beginning with the founder of Standard Oil, John D. Rockefeller, suggests looking at a history of power and wealth, which influenced the perception of post-industrial society in America and the conditions that later proliferated the growth of the megalopolis. The fictional elements, pointing to a potential shift to a new order, are obvious in the architecture of the landscape and in details of an unusual unprecedented activism that communicates an optimistic stamen, “I love you.”