Building upon the visual language encoded in his paintings and murals, Romero’s sculptures uniquely play on dimension and space. Retaining the two-dimensional, painterly style of the same subjects on canvas, Romero creates objects that mimic the familiar landscape of California or New Mexico, dually paying homage to the Hollywood lens in its reminiscence of set props on film stages, where a contrast is highlighted between the black and white derivatives of imagery he saw daily in his upbringing (paraphrased from Barrientos Martínez). “It's so interesting that all those movies that made such an impression on me as a young man were made in the thirties in Hollywood. So it's interesting that we grew up in the fifties watching cowboy movies from the thirties. . . That was the first recycling of a culture, I think, in our society. Because that's what TV does, you know?” - Oral history interview with Frank Romero, 1997, January 17-March 2. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.