Alison Moritsugu's mosaics intertwine two definitions of the word community. "Community" speaks of both people living in a specific geographic area, as well as plants growing together sharing the same ecosystem. The glass mosaics highlight four plants endemic to the Bronx area. These include Acer rubrum (red maple), Carya cordiformis (bitternut hickory), Rosa palustris (swamp rose), and Smilax rotundifolia (common greenbrier). Woven into the background are images of people from the Bronx. Once the hunting grounds for the early Siwanoy Indians, this area became farmland and later residential developments. Like the natural landscape, populations are continually changing and always in flux.

Alison Moritsugu was born and raised in Hawaii and left the islands after high school. She received a BFA from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri and an MFA from the School of Visual Arts in New York.  Her work explores how idealized images of the natural world shape our concept of it. Moritsugu’s work has been exhibited in solo shows at the Honolulu Museum of Art, Littlejohn Contemporary, NY, Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art, among others. She received a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in painting and has participated in several residencies. Moritsugu lives and works in Beacon, New York.