EARLIER WORKS (1994-2002): “Activation of perception carries us beyond language and is irreducible to iconography; a morality of the image is not based on its content, on moral themes, but its activity, a commitment to the world. Against the unreality of the image, one can rediscover a poetry of the object, of what is, and learn the experience of this poetry through the tactile presence of the artist’s hand.” (From the essay titled “If We Are Lucky” by writer/critic Fred Dewey, included in Lucas Reiner – Los Angeles Trees, published in 2008 by Prestel.)