I’m an artist and writer who produces across genre in poetry, prose, theater and visual art. It’s a conversation that ricochets and echo’s and I’ll bring my audience right into the fray. I’ve made huge novel-sized installations and haiku-like miniatures no bigger than a seed. I relish an art historical reference and I’m a sucker for a visual pun. I prefer to see the mistake-making hand present and often work in materials associated with childhood, like tracing and coloring and papier mâché. I have an affinity with the Arte Povera, concrete poetry and land art movements. My projects unfold over time and take years to make up and mess up. Because I work in so many different media I am often thinking in oeuvre, and relational themes. I consider my primary art medium to be sculpture. I make work in at least three dimensions and count the body always present.

I have an intellectual, analytic background and training from my education, experience and personality. I’ve always been interested in scholarly topics. I read Walter Benjamin one time then can’t stop thinking about the implications of our age of mechanical reproduction. I’m not a political artist at all but can get stirred up by the immediate and topical. I’ll take as much pleasure in seeing who wore it better as I do in contemplating work by Richter, Rothko, Smithson, Bourgeois. I mean they all wore it pretty well! I enjoy that straddle between pop culture and high culture because, as far as I’m concerned, it’s all culture. Every day, ordinary interactions are, to me, the most spiritually profound.

Keats said truth is beauty and that is all we need to know. Would that it were true. I like how the whole poem is addressed to a practical piece of sculpture that can hold ashes, water, soup, ideas and nothing.