In literal and quite abstract ways, Sothern California-based Jaime Muñoz has always explored machines. He paints with an airbrush machine, his works are a comment on the way we move labor through the use of cars and looks at how industry and democracy coexist. In our interview in the Summer 2022 Quarterly, Jaime spoke about the Federal Aid Highway Act of 1956, a freeway system often considered LA’s biggest monuments reflective of racism and gentrification. So he isn’t new to exploring how the machine, or the mechanism of industry are influencing his works.