Joe Koppal is a lifelong botanist and artist. After leaving the Haight in ‘71 he moved to a small Northern California town. He began building small homes and over the years developed a singular language, articulated through painting, sculpture and design. A lifetime involvement with psychedelics and an autodidactic pursuit of art education has energized his distinctive style. Themes of ecological devastation, rapacious capitalism, western religion, and colonization commingle with a parade of art historical references. There is a recurring set of personal hieroglyphs that appear to Koppal in dreams and find their way from his journals to his paintings, sculpture and the recombinable installations he refers to as tableaux.