Creative Artist
My creative expression takes different forms: sculpture, collage, assemblage, painting, photography, poetry, screenplays, even songs. If I never have another creative thought in my life, I have enough half-written screenplays and documentary ideas written down in files, or “soon-to-be-art” in boxes, that I could happily stay busy in my studio forever.
Ars Gratia Artis
Wandering galleries and museums inspires me, but so does nature, politics, and trash along the side of the road. Taking something from a thought to a physical form seems like a magical act, a flowering of something unnameable. I love art.
“Art for art’s sake.”
Make Art not War
A lot of my art is political, and I jokingly call it Didactic Art. Humor helps me get through life.
I find that art isn’t just something I want to do, it’s something I need to do. Sometimes it helps me express my anger in a tangible form, sometimes it brings me joy, and sometimes it sustains me when I can’t manage to do anything else.
Visual Artist
My first-ever real purchase was an all-manual 35mm Minolta SRT-200 camera. It weighed a ton, had a metal body, and I swear you could drive in tent stakes with that thing. Cameras have evolved a lot since then, from film to tape to digital. But having an eye and telling a story is still something that develops (pardon the pun) over time.
Play
It doesn’t really matter if it’s paint, found objects, digital video, or film – it’s all just raw materials to play with, to try to make something beautiful, or say something.
Trying to tell a story – whether it’s with a single photograph, editing TV commercials, making a short videos, or creating documentaries – is something I really enjoy.
