Air Traffic (Bitterness makes Sweeter Parting) Found house collage photo, ceramic house, toy metal-cast planes, plastic birds, wire, sandpaper
I constructed this piece to illustrate some of my frustrations with living in Tucson. I am facing the prospect of leaving Tucson for a job elsewhere and I am looking for things I don't like that will make parting sweeter. I am not a fan of military jets overhead all of the time. I am not at all comfortable with police helicopters roaming around the house at night. I despise the vermin pigeons all over, but I don't have the disposition to kill them. The endless stucco houses and excess of sand and gravel is not very appealing either. A friend of mine who grew up in the same place in Utah that I did commented that Tucson looks like a huge trailer park. Things I hate, but I will truly miss it here.