Because they are the carriers of what we generally refer to as power, the hydro structures of our downtown alleys become metaphors for its various polarities: the natural and the man-made, the sacred and the mundane, the strong and the weak. The transformers appear in the paintings as totems, gargoyles, lares--the observers of the city. By juxtaposing the elements of city and nature, these paintings explore our co-creation of our world, and our position in it: where does power actually lie?

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