Typically, I make art based upon my experience and relationships in navigating life, death, my perspective on the world and my relationship with the elements in my art itself. This is an obviously broad statement, however outside of working in series; my work does not fit neatly into one style, medium, conceptual intention, or method.  Above all, I can say that my work remains consistently organic, visceral, saturated (both in content and form) and of the body. 

Thus, my work is Experiential.

For the audience this component is of course more apparent in my time-based media works such as interactive installations, performance, sound and video. 

However, this important element of experience and the meaning we (both for myself and audience) discern from it is communicated in my space-based work through process, material, form, and “language”.  This is as opposed to strictly literal narrative.  Therefore I consciously play with literal translations in an ironic, tongue-in-cheek sort of way that gives me much pleasure of the pun and the absurd.  This brings the important element of humor to my process and product. 

In the same vein I confront Taboo and involve it in a very literal (and therefore graphic) manner so that my audience may also question the nature of these unwritten laws from a practical perspective.  Hence the inclusion of elements which may initially read to some as a hint pornographic, gory, violent, blasphemous; PROFANE. 

As is obvious, I have no desire merely to create work that reflects the beauty of the world through a safe lens.  However by embracing the SACRED as well, the Profane and Taboo become provocative, perhaps attractive, and therefore capable of eliciting empathy.  Our experiences and this world can be better understood through the contrast provided in this balance of opposites.  Everything is Sacred, and simultaneously; everything is Profane.

This relationship of course refers to the Art world as well and the paradoxes which reside there. Therefore it is also to my amusement and satisfaction to include in my work a layer of self-referential levity as a subversive element.