My first AIPP project was built in my studio in 65 tile-clad ferrocement pieces, which were reassembled, backfilled, and patched on site, all during the years of 2009-11.. An hommage to Old South Austin in all its glorious weirdness, I envisioned it as a cross between a Mardi Gras costume, a throne, and an ornamental plant, and as it took on a life of it's own during its countless hours of construction, new imagery seemed to grow out of it.  Within it are embedded over 60 mementos from various businesses, churches, schools, natural elements, people, and periodicals from the surrounding neighborhood. Needless to say, that's about all that's left of that unique place in time.

Its title reminds each of us that our basic goodness and wonderfulness is never ever in question.

It's located at the corner of South Congress & Live Oak.

One slightly inebreated Chicano street person really nailed it when he looked it over and stated, "There's a lot of gods in there..."

This piece won one of only 50 nation-wide awards by the Americans for the Arts  Public Art Network Year in Review, out of Washington DC and like Casa Neverlandia, is one of the last remnants of the old weird South Austin that once was.