"I wanted my artificial landscapes to have objects from the natural world so I used potted moon cactuses. Brilliantly colored man-made hybrids with day-glow red or orange domes grafted to a green cactus stalk, moon cactuses were ideal for my purposes because they are a blend of the real and the unreal. Miniature cars and busses as well as plastic animals were selected to represent the world in simulation. I bought a large stack of old Arizona Highways Magazines and mined them for photographic backdrops of the desert."