I make sculptures, media works, and installations about the world around me, touching both timeless themes and urgent issues. My work incorporates elements of Americana, both popular and obscure, which are distorted via subtle shifts in form, context, scale and methods of viewer interaction.

Each work I make serves as an open metaphor. Each work is a dynamic of relationships between concrete materials, slippery icons, and sentimentalized processes. I don't work in any one medium. Each medium is too burdened for me to use any one consistently. I don't work in any one milieu. We live in a society reliant upon advanced industry and consumerism. Each day, we encounter too wide a range of objects and sensations for me to isolate my whims and strategies to just one avenue.

I am obsessed by the phenomena we call "meaning." Artistic meaning, the sort of meaning that answers that age-old question, "But what does it mean?" is most certainly an emergent entity. You: your engagement, your biases, your ideals; the artwork: its object reality, its aesthetic properties, its historical context; both of you and your constituent parts are engaged in a broad, messy, simultaneous interaction. Both of these bundles-you and the artwork-are essential and responsible ingredients in this primordial soup. This process, this mystery of human cognition, fascinates me, motivates me, and directs my studio practice.

I want my works to generate complex meanings, meanings that tumble from clarity into contradiction, chaos and then back again. These complexities echo themes my work explores: national identity, leadership, the individual in society, romantic love, our relationship to landscape, definitions of home. Complexity emerges in the liminal zone between chaos and order. Meaning emerges somewhere between sensation and thought, body and mind. In my work, a pattern of paradox has emerged, with a number of classical dichotomies occupying the same space: the minimal and the baroque, the sparse and the robust, the sentimental and the flippant, the timely and the anachronistic, the patriotic and the traitorous. All these show up in a broad body of work that is simultaneously sincere and ironic.

Complexity emerges out of that narrow boundary between chaos and order. My work comes directly out that territory.