David is a Mexican American artist working from his studio in Rogers, Arkansas. He explores the place of humanity in the cosmos and the delineation of meaning and context through lines and shapes. The latter is a recurring theme of his work as he contends with the results of the aggregate of lines, type fonts, and biomechanics into language or symbols. His fascination with symbols and meaning derives from a longing to understand and be understood. As the child of Evangelical ministers in mostly Catholic Mexico, his customs and cultural association made him feel lost and an outsider in his own homeland. Exacerbating these feelings of peerlessness, his world view developed through a lens of undiagnosed ADHD, dyslexia, and stammering. At the age of fourteen, his family relocated to the US and again language became a new invisible border and the lack of historical context within the new culture rekindled the old feelings. His work presents these obstacles with insidious cypher-like markings ubiquitous of his work. Strands and series of symbols and code merge together as if orchestrated musically in a way that only those who have seen or worked with those symbols and context can fully recognize. However, his work is not exclusionary. Instead, he collects symbols and imagery that are prevalent in popular culture and slowly draws out their insidious nature.