I definitely don't think of myself as someone identified by region. It's too far-flung a region, for starters, and southern New Mexico is very isolated. I wouldn't think of my identity as generational, either, but maybe as more stylistic, in the school of realism and domestic issues.

Together we are building a new Mexico.

New Mexico is an environment where we are open for business.

I have traveled to many places but have no desire to leave New Mexico.

Georgia O'Keeffe proposed that I live with her. She was in New Mexico then, and I wanted to be in New York.

They cannot see that growth for the sake of growth is a cancerous madness, that Phoenix and Albuquerque will not be better cities to live in when their populations are doubled again and again. They would never understand that an economic system which can only expand or expire must be false to all that is human.