Toothless Tucson Wolf

The Tucson Wolf series began with the discovery of "Saguaro Astaire". The dancing cactus pirouetted onto the desert dance floor from a curvy green wiggle of a shape born through the mating of tinfoil and scissors. As Saguaro Astaire's thorn line thinned he gave up his dance card to the namesake of the series, the Tucson Wolf. There is something about the Southwest that oozes eons of legends, likely preserved through lack of rain. For those of us living behind the Redwood Curtain this vision of timeless undisturbed history resting in the Southwest flows from the opposite condition of our skies. So much water falls to earth here everything is washed clean weekly. "Tucson Wolf's Ancestor Before The Change" is evidence of this artist's fascination with a dry climate and an environmental palette not dominated by greens. "Desert Pork" is a play on words as even though you may find a pig in the sand no one would put pork in their rainbow sorbet. The Tucson Wolf series in general is testament to the artist's love for and value of humor.