Artist Statement

2007

I respond to people and places, valuing the creation of experiences over objects. Rather than making things, I make things happen. I approach art as life practice in the same way that an athlete might shoot hoops as basketball practice. Art making becomes a series of exercises that allow me to get better at being.

I initiate conversations about the significance of home and the contested definition of community, catalog homemade tools and signs, share songs, record stories, forage edible plants in the city, create participatory schools and write alternative histories. I site my work in a variety of locations where I can meet potential collaborators—not excluding the gallery, but including the street corner, the playground, the garden, the riverbank.

Each work is an opportunity for exchange. These activities build the infrastructure of an alternative economy whose currency includes skills, meals, songs, stories, conversations, laughter, and experiences of all sorts.

My practice celebrates our collective power to create the world we want to live in through the relationships we build and the stories we tell.