Artist Statement
- Utilize and respond to my environment.
- Don't ignore intuition.
- Question convention and my reaction to conventions.
- Don't prematurely decide what is important.
- Alter existing spaces and objects.
- Think about context.
- Highlight something new, ignored, unnoticed, or unspoken.
- Try not to be obvious.
- Captivate the casual passerby.
- Reward keen observers, and/or participants.
- Reach out.
- Say serious things with jokes.
- Experiment.
- Spy.
- Take notes.
- Try not to have an answer in mind.
- Display all your ideas and share them with others.
- Take responsibility for, but do not own your work.
- Recognize the times you've made art without calling it art.
- Be subversive without subverting yourself.
- Read everything you can get your hands on.
- Take notice of the things you hate.
- Know what you don't want to make.
- Follow through on streams of consciousness.
- Follow through on anything.
- Know the definition of words.
- Do not accept those definitions as finite.
- Exercise nepotism openly.
- Ask a lot of your viewer.
- Think about relationships.
- Draw no conclusions, but hypothesize often.
- Don't take any opportunity to stroke your intellectual ego.
- Do be selective.
- Make things.
- Deviate from the plan.
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