Mario Zoots manipulates popular culture in a variety of mediums. His vision is both playful and disturbing simultaneously. His strange sensibility questions reality and challenges assumptions about the way things are. Appropriation and collage inherently involve nothing less than altering the shared existence of the world. By collecting found objects and images, Zoots reimagines the perception of the everyday. Separate from the concerns of any loosely-affiliated movement, Zoots describes his practice from a more personal perspective, “I would like to think that my work is about tapping into the unconscious and setting up parameters to allow chance to work its magic.”
