Clifford Monto Espinosa

Designs and builds houses, transforms ordinary yards into meaningful and useful gardens, and creates one of a kind functional sculptures from weathered and battered old wood.

He takes on sculpture as his vehicle in exposing earth-friendly attitudes toward work and the environment. He executes all his designs by hand, expressing fine details with rich cultural undertones.

The use of wood from demolished old houses is his way of protesting against man’s destructive consumption, retrieving cast-off materials and reinstating them into their original structure and integrity.

His houses are meant as shelter, while his gardens are breathing spaces, forming an invisible and friendly boundary between house dwellers and the outside world,. His functional sculptures are made to cradle tired bodies, connecting people to a livable and ecological space.


INTERNATIONAL RECOGNITION

Clifford garnered international acclaim for the United Nations’ Housing the Homeless Competition in London, 1987 and the United Nations’ Housing the Homeless Competition in Genoa, 1988