Comprising mixed media drawings, collages, paintings, sculpture, assemblages, and multi-media installations, the evocative “Eco-Deco” works of Terry Graff constitute a distinctive vision in contemporary visual art. The alchemical transformation that occurs through recombination of cast-off detritus from our consumerist, technological society provides him with a potent means for exploring our dual character as part of nature yet transformed by technology. As early as 1975, he began fusing images of birds with machinery, which eventually evolved in the 1980s and 1990s into robotic duck decoys and mechanical simulations of wetland environments and other ecological systems. Along with references to old-fashioned shooting galleries and pinball machines, Graff’s futuristic aviaries often include quirky visual source material from his childhood encoded or embedded with cultural constructions of nature. In the process of becoming modified or transformed for survival in a post-apocalyptic world, Graff’s mutant birds are at once humorous and horrific. His recent series of “Warbirds" combine birds with war machinery and combat weaponry in a dark comedy of nature fighting back.