I have no desire to cloister myself within the artistic community. My practice focuses on the objects and media common to a colloquial dialogue. Working with photographs, video, animation and functional space, I am pushing to reach beyond the boundaries of an expert audience.
The impetus of my production is the discovery and understanding of the fundamental experiences that color American attitudes towards the “other.” We are a society of others, and yet we frequently refuse this diversity in the creation of a national identity. I trespass in expectations of who we are, and in so doing hope to provide some insight into who we believe we are not. Encompassing attitudes towards the poor, the immigrant, the foreigner, the outsider; my position is that our identity, and our perceptions of others are directed by our most basic ideas about what it means to live and learn in the United States.