For me, it was an opportunity to show an aspect of America that no longer is around. It’s been a real treat. I’ve enjoyed it and I hope the viewer enjoys it also. 

"Do what you do and do it with so much love that people will see the honesty in what you do and money will come to you. "

Nowhere in Makos’ oeuvre is the process of deconstruction and reconstruction through disjoint more consistently apparent than in his “Pieced”, or “Stand-Up” portraits.