I am a politically motivated multi-disciplinary artist whose artwork borrows from, and combines, the multiple disciplines to create artwork that fluidly addresses the perils inflicted on individuals by modern society, e.g. our species’ ability to destroy itself, climate change, school shootings, alienation, and economic disparity.

My work flows between these multiple disciplines from which I borrow. My practice ranges from the traditional written word and photography, to non-traditional theater/performance where I’ve used traditional theater elements (e.g. lighting, costumes) as well as non-traditional elements (e.g. movement, magical realism), to my current visual work composed of assemblages (original text, image transfer, drawing, paint, wood) and conceptual art. My work has always been, and always will be, about the individual and the struggle to maintain individuality in our society.

I am very much informed by the theater. You don’t lean back in a theater seat and say, “Entertain me.” For the actors to do their jobs well, the audience has to be just as involved as the actors in order to give something back for the actors to respond to. It's a collaborative event, an emotional conversation between creator and viewer. The same is true for non-performance artwork. Nor do you walk into a gallery and just look at paintings on a wall. Pictures are something you should engage with just as emotionally as you would with musicians at a concert. For that reason, I break the picture plane the same way an actor breaks the fourth wall and talks directly to the audience. I break the plane down with text in order to let the viewer in the artwork. Titles, for me, are more like captions.

Also, from the theater, I've learned that art has an ephemeral quality. The only place where it is truly saved or preserved is in the heart and in the mind of the viewer.

I make things; I don’t make representational images of things even with a camera. (In that regards, the picture would be the thing I make.) For that reason, I need to see the hand of the artist and the mark of the tool. I don’t value polished (sorry Jeff Koons!) What I value are the materials I use--photographic images, collage, cameras, paint, charcoal, acetate, whatever it is I have on hand--and what they can do. I value spontaneity during the creative process for what it allows the materials to reveal, and I value ambiguity for raising questions in the viewer’s mind.

Therefore, I am inspired and influenced by street art. Decay. Torn wallpaper in an abandoned house. Tarnished mirrors. The remnants of tattered posters left glued on a wall. Graffiti art on freight cars. Paint rags. The seemingly haphazard/purposeful/spontaneous nature of paint buildup in an art studio sink...

...memory, remorse, and anger. Death, tombstones, and graveyards...

...science and technology, nature, and politics. And advertising.