Materials and messages common to the urban environment store signage, graffiti, posters, repaired and repainted walls, pop culture ephemera permeate a fractured, apocalyptic landscape of beauty and chaos. Here, among the debris of a failing world and the first tentative intimations of a new one, the ancient and the modern bear witness to the eternal struggle for the 9-to-5 soul of Everyman.

Martino is committed to torching indifference, complacency and mindless conformity wherever it lurks, using any and all means at his disposal to accomplish the goal that unifies his diverse and wide-reaching body of work: to find the magical amidst the mundane in an increasingly generic, prepackaged world of mini-malls, master planned communities and bad reality tv.