At the conceptual heart of Ricky Otto's work is the limen: the threshold in which one is both part of but distant, and from which one can mindfully and respectfully detach. It is the in-between, conjoining public and private, love and death, the natural and the constructed. Emancipatory bird's eye view is a perspectival renunciation of judgment and recognition of created conceptions of otherness. 

At once orchestrated and choreographed, Otto's celebratory palette narrativizes contemporary urban/suburban terrain in the bibliosocial context. Levity and luminosity coexists with traditionally instilled fear (of judgment after death, for example), and constant concern for status. Community perseveres in his work below the ego, below the city, below the flower ensconced hill.