Robert Yoder creates playfully elegant signifiers by re-constructing objects of rather universally recognized meaning (like road signs) into cryptic yet resonantly familiar situations. In his work, a symbol or sign becomes both constraint and an opportunity. His work is both a puzzle and a roadmap. Yoder’s work distills a truism; art like life is as sophisticated and wonderful as you care to make it. In his hands, the familiar becomes a wonder to ponder. For The Best Coast his wallpaper reconfigured a support column and standpipe causing the whole structure to waver as if camouflaged, and is a very interesting expansion of ideas from Support-Surface, op art and Arte Povera. Lastly, the sun light around the column shifted with the time of day making the space around it a kind of modern Moorish Alhambra.