Succession II is part of a comprehensive body of work the artist has been work on over 30 years. Citing a love of landscape, the artist’s professional skills as a Landscape Architect play an important role in the forms he creates. Succession II, commissioned as an entryway feature for a residential building, alludes to both the build forms of the walkways and the larger environment of the surrounding landscape, including a dry stream bed that was inspired by the nearby Byrne Creek. Succession II is named for the biological phenomenon of the successive evolution of plant habitats within an ecologically disturbed site to create a stable productive community.