"Arcosanti in Arizona is a very intentional, utopian modernist community. It was built in the 1970s in the modernist style, but it’s falling apart because it sits atop a mesa and is exposed to the elements. If you go twenty miles up the road, there is a site called Montezuma’s Castle, which is not an Aztec site at all, but an indigenous cliff dwelling made of earth and brick. It's beautiful. It was built into the side of the cliff, so it’s protected from the elements and able to sustain habitat. It was built in a way that might be imagined as a modernist utopia. Those two things, so close together, are the perfect example of what I am thinking about in my paintings. Modernist ideals are not invented; they are heavily influenced by colonial trips. Even the aesthetic of a square building seems connected to me." - Carlos Rosales-Silva