A personal collection started in 1991, including examples from around the world (Hamburg, Zagreb, Munich, London), representing sports teams (Kansas Jayhawks, Greenbay Packers), cities (Las Vegas, Seattle, New York, Aspen, etc.), and some with funny names (Lip Schitt, Chicken Poop) or advertising products (Lucky Charms, Nestle candy bar).
Santiago Pérez is a painter of colorful and dramatic paintings in the Surrealist-fantasy, Hispanic, Western landscape, Cowboy, and genres. Santiago paints horses, cowboy scenes, portraits, Southwestern landscape, and imaginary worlds of fantastic creatures. He gets his inspiration from art history, folk tales, stories, and poetry. His exhibit at East Mountain was oil on cardboard portraits of famous authors, including Edgar Allan Poe, Franz Kafka, Langston Hughes, Joy Harjo,Sandra Cisneros, Maxine Hong Kingston, and James Baldwin.