Besides the ambition of this sculpture/ photography pairing, perhaps the most striking aspect of Nativo is the casual shift in scale among the sculptural objects, from the exaggerated scale of the oversized pods to the miniature scale of a stone with roots growing out of it. Macro and micro perspectives share the same elemental stage, as the artist looks backwards and forwards through time to understand his place and identity.

—Allen Frame lives in New York where he teaches photography at the School of Visual Arts, Pratt Institute, and the International Center of Photography.