About

I am a thinker-artist.  My intention is to bring to light social hegemony, especially as it pertains to the effects of hegemony on the body, socially, emotionally and physically; how our ideas and thoughts are socially constructed; representations and constructions of  “value”; and magic and spirituality, especially transcendence, the view “outward” from the body and its social restrictions and into the spiritual realm.  I also intend to connect all of these concerns with the larger question of our relationship with our environment.

This goal is important to me because I have a deep-seated need to share my perspective as someone who has often faced extreme discrimination due to differences of racial, sexual, and class identities as well as bodily size and disabilities.

When I make art, I try to use my brush and other tools to give a voice to those experiences of difference.  In a way, I feel that these tools are my weapons in a battle against all forms of hegemony.  My practice is heavily informed by cultural and social theory, which—apart from the work of other artists—is the most passionate source of new ideas and perspectives, the driving engine of social activism.  Without theory, the most radical of activists would not know which window to smash—or why…