“An important aspect of my identity as an artist comes from my experience as a working class laborer. My work in construction and in commerical art utilized grids as functional layout tools, but as I incorporated them into my work my use of grids evolved to reflect a deeper meaning to me. The grid symbolizes modernity, and the myth of progress through capitalist enterprise that inherently commodifies and dehumanizes human labor.”

—Jaime Muñoz