Pulled from notebooks, stacks of loose papers, and blood-stained napkins tucked away in boxes and bins, Sketches is the culmination of over two decades of notes, scribbles, and assorted ephemera.

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Its tidy, square shape and sparse lines reflect the grim broken concrete and weed-choked vacant lots of Tres' childhood spent riding BMX bikes through 1990's Rust Belt America. The collection is a melancholic exploration of the cognitive dissonance of the Clinton years, when America was "booming," and yet, all around the first cracks were showing in the national foundation.