It all began with a natural integration of my sociopolitical beliefs with a sheer joy of art-making, and has since developed into an artistic praxis by which I integrate the human realm- its individuals, cultures, and struggles- with its refuse, in order to address the issues I feel most passionate about. I use the proceeds of the sales of my art to witness the world firsthand-i.e.-when I sell a painting, I buy a plane ticket and go! I am a humanist artist: unapologetically narrative, and for whom art and the social world are inseparable. My artistic practice has taken me on a lifelong “shoestring” adventure-packed with action and magic-that has variously found me training in Beijing with Kung Fu masters tango dancing in Buenos Aires in riots in Chile eating dinner on dirt floors with Tibetan exiles in Nepal and at the dinner tables of famed filmmakers in Italy on the couches of Panthers and Weather Underground in medicinal ceremonies in the Amazonian jungle at Tahrir Square with a million Egyptians. Secondly, my use of trash is a spiritual practice in the sense that it is re-transfigured into something of beauty.įinally, using post-consumer waste is a socio-political act: it is both a form of recycling, and it expresses our interconnectedness and commonalities as human beings-in what we value, share, consume, and cast away. I use what is most readily available to my era-waste from our globalized consumer culture. Weather Underground provides local & long-range weather forecasts, weatherreports, maps & tropical weather conditions for the Maple Valley area. First, I believe that artists have always used materials close-at-hand. The reasons behind my use of recycled material are multilayered. Where we are similar is of a more profound metaphysical caliber: the bond between brothers, the love between mother and child, the kinship shared through creative endeavors these run like threads in the great fabric of generations. Divisions are often either superficial or artificially created based on racial, economic, and national ideologies. What compels my artistic practice is the desire to convey that which I have found to be true in all of the countries I have traveled to: that our commonalities as human beings far outweigh our differences.
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