Artist Statement

My work celebrates a twisted personal spirituality devoted to pain, suffering, death and the other pleasantries that grace our lives. My contraptions themselves are acts of obsessive worship.

My current body of work is comprised of Vehicles to the Next Life that can't get off the ground. They are bogged down in the sands of life, in its stickiness and complications, but this is alright because our daily life is all we have.

Among my chief influences are my family (especially the dead ones), the art of the outsider, and my heavy duty power tools. My art has also been informed by the Latin American glorification of death and by their culture's ability to integrate disparate spiritual influences – Jesus-Quetzalcoatl-Elvis. Southern self taught artists and Graceland at Christmas time have also informed my work (I grew up in Memphis Tennessee).

Death is my number one preoccupation but I also like to lift weights. My goal for the future is to go to Haiti and study Vodoun in order to remove all impediments to a successful art career.