Many of his images were developed around the premise of still-lifes. However, they were embedded with a variety of metaphorical references that had subjective undertones. Facey moved from Los Angeles to New Mexico in 1986, and is presently living and working along the Rio Grande River basin. Influenced by the dramatic scope of his current environment, his works have become more abstract and closer to the diagrammatic images suggested by nature. In the Map Paintings Facey provides viewers with his distinctive rhythmic visual language.
Inspiration is derived from a medley of mercurial natural elements.
They include the striations, formations and elliptical substructures of fields, forests, waterways and rivers. Other influences stem from the structural elements found in Navajo blankets and musical staffs. Facey regards the language of landscape as an apt metaphor to probe the relationship between order and chaos. References to separate moments and to simultaneous developments in time bring to mind Cubism's fragmentations and multiple perspectives. At the same time, his combination of symmetry, order and balance reveal the nucleus of a true classicist.