As an artist, I have been focused on expression and the translation of ideas through the visual language. I have maintained an interdisciplinary attitude towards my work and have given myself license to use whatever means necessary to relate my ideas. This interdisciplinary approach allows me to access a variety of media and use a diverse and eclectic vocabulary in the creation of my work.

I consider myself a kind of modern archaeologist and the creative process is an opportunity for me to study culture. I find, appropriate, and rescue elements of our modern society out of garbage piles, vacant lots, junk yards, thrift stores, novelty stores, old books, archives, etc...and utilize these details to comment on my own surroundings. Each item has an inherent or attached value as well as a visual potential all its own and I consider everything I collect for its intellectual and aesthetic possibilities.

I am fascinated by the relationship between emotion and intellect and enjoy combining and recombining recognizable materials and images into new and unexpected relationships. Playing with the association between the visual and intellectual aspects of cultural materials stimulates ideas, memories and concepts within my own mind. When I create images or objects or spaces or actions, it is as if I am creating a story based of the meanings, values, and aesthetics of the elements I use. I like using materials in this manner because I feel that they can relate insights into our culture or society that cannot be expressed through verbal or written languages.

The creative process allows me to bring my personality into the commentaries that I create and lets me to make the work more personal. Through the materials and images, I exercise my own sense of curiosity and create stories that are designed to illustrate my own reflections of time and place. In this manner, I can narrate, satirize, question, and comment on aspects of my own physical and psychological environment. By manipulating contents and contexts, I make each piece an abstraction of things we know, see, and understand as a society and tell of our contemporary culture through my own search for meaning.

In history, materials and images can tell us more about culture because they can survive through time. In fact, materials, objects and images can often become more representative of society or culture than any other facet because of their ability to survive. As an artist, it is my hope that the viewer will be able to connect with each piece because they recognize an element or elements and become drawn into the work as a result of that recognition. Once involved with a piece the viewer can begin to decipher some of the latent meanings and begin to interact with the work based on their own reactions.