"The use that people make of the objects is very important," he says. "The work I will show at MOCA has a visual impact that I hope many people can enjoy. It is also a study of nodes, lattices, patterns. The approach is to use everyday materials to convey relatively complex ideas and construction schemes.. . ."

González, also featured at MOCA, will show a labor-intensive mural composed of cut-out, folded, devalued currency from several countries. Tiny trees, tanks and buildings are all made of money. Each of the roughly 5,000 pictorial components is glued to paper, which will cover the walls of an entire gallery.

"I think every material has a memory and is full of symbols," he says. "It is talking about something, full of meanings which have to do with the transformation into art. Bills are loaded with the history of their countries. Every ornament, national hero, character and building represented is part of the content I use to construct my pieces."