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Davis Birks: Paradise in Process, 2014

Oficina de Proyectos Culturales
Puerto Vallarta, Mexico

Photos: Josef Kandoll



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Expansion Zone, 2014 

Brick, mortar and live plants
Dimensions variable

In this intallation a brick wall
was built and then destroyed
to create the form of the tree.

Live plants take root in the 
rubble created during the
process.

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Pasado/Futuro, 2011-2014

Brick and rebar
Dimensions variable

(photo: Josef Kandoll)

Here, the bricks removed to form the word Pasado are then used to form the word Futuro.

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Mancha Urbana, 2014

Vinyl on existing wall

Dimensions variable

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Recuerdos, 2014

Wooden table and shoe 
boxes filled with photos, 
documents and letters from
families of Puerto Vallarta

95 x 60 x 120  cm.

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Recuerdos, 2014 (detail)

Originally inspired by Gabriel 
Orozco's Shoebox, 1993, I 
wanted to fill that emptiness
with memories using the 
common practice of a shoebox 
to store photos, love letters, documents, etc.

Families from Puerto Vallarta 
were invited to share personal 
memories as a way to 
emphasize the need for a 
municipal historical archive.

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Rendezvous 17: This Land

Is My Land, 2014


Oil paint on canvas, plywood and

printed cloth


69.5 x 99 x 3.5 cm.


This work is an intervention with a  painting executed by the artist Aldolfo Espinoza de los Monteros. Painted in the early 70s, I found this piece hanging on the wall of one of my favorite jazz lounges, El Patio. Years after an initial request, the owner graciously allowed the evolution.


Influenced by Mondrian, Fontana and my Scottish heritage, this romantic landscape  has been zoned for development.

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Urban Landscape, 2014

Carved brick inserted into 
existing wall with electric light

13 x 26 x 7 cm.

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