ARTIST STATEMENT

My art is me going off on a little rant, and hoping that someone sees the problem I’m going off about and that they have feelings about it too.

The rant itself = social (problems + movement).

Movement because bodies deal with feelings, and I want people to come out feeling. Problems because I tell stories, and stories need conflict that invites possibilities, corrections, and connections.

So, I embody social problems with movement, and I try to make things both clear and nuanced at the same time.

Sometimes my problems have solutions.

Sometimes they are just problems.

Regardless, I am not interested in putting boundaries on my problems. Their solutions are multidisciplinary, surreal, and risky. Their resolution ends in a place I don’t anticipate, and each answer is aesthetically very different from the last.

I perform in most of my work because I do weird, difficult things. It can be hard to convince others to do weird, difficult things.

All of this to say….

The goal is that my rant makes people want to talk - you with me, and me with you, and they with them. I want to give people something to rant about.