Urban Design

This is acrylic and collage on plywood panel. Note the comic strip on the left and the yellow advertisements on the right.

I did this while living in the basement of a skid-row apartment.

The urban landscape looks different from a basement window. At night I could see hookers on the corner, plying their trade. The traffic was constant. Sometimes I'd find condoms right outside my window or awaken to the sound of breaking glass.

One advantage of living in the basement was that I regularly used the hallways to work-on my larger paintings. Some of the paintings in the 'Monoprint' series were done in the furnace room there.