I started to browse online for images of day laborers and found the major source of them to be extreme anti-immigration activist sites such as www.minutemenproject.com and the extraordinary www.familysecuritymatters.org. I've enjoyed re-purposing some of these images into icons that pay homage to the personal stories that the figures represent.

The coal miners came later - a reference both to the influx of European miners to early California, and to the fact that I grew up in an English mining town at a time when the industry was being closed down.

I ran into several coyotes whilst hiking recently and they always seem to have a particular elusive presence that I wanted to include in the pictures. They always seem to know that they own the landscape and that we are just passing through.