Born in San Antonio and now living in New York, Alejandro Diaz creates a series of paintings that picture three different places in a similar manner. Diaz uses everyday imagery, humor, and pointed cultural commentary to represent the layered visual culture of Texas, Spain, and Mexico. The works use a shared structure: a flat, saturated sky paired with a low, dark horizon, finished with one emblematic object. In Texas, an oil pumpjack stands beneath a heavy yellow sun; in Spain and Mexico, the pumpjack gives way to a soccer goal, a symbol of sport, competition, and national pride the two countries share. Seen side by side, the works invite comparison, showing how simple places and symbols can hold a culture’s aspirations and limits.