Reality, more often than not, fails to live up to imagination. How do I illuminate the space between what we want to be, or who we think we could be, and what we are? Expectations and results, fantasy and actual life are at the core of my work. Having experience in dance and performance, in addition to my fine arts background, I explore this question in terms of presentation, rather than represented, pictorial imagery.

My performances provide a window to another dimension of emotional and psychic life, where a metaphoric gesture gives a glimpse of what we wish we could become, and reveal that ineffable feeling of where we fall short. Often, the subject matter can reveal some unpleasantness that we don't want to face in ourselves.

The presentation of my work has evloved from traditional sculpture or installation to performance-oriented formats. The sculptural objects I have created in the past mirror us in gesture, and whimsy and sadness, and are built from materials such as pvc pipe, fabric, doorbells, polyethylene ribbon, tarps, bakery string and aluminum orbs. The construction isn't refined and glossy; the process used to create them is visible but not predominant. The work takes the form of masses of tube like shapes or appendages, standing, hanging, draping, leaning and jetting up or outward. They present their own choreography in a lyrical style. For one event, I dressed myself in one of the works, and brought it to life. Since then, I have become the sculpture, presenting myself as the raw material.

The performance/video and sound works (I don't differentiate between live performance and video performance - the video is just a private performance for the camera) illustrate a direct glorification of the pathetic, or what I call the everyday pathetic. Using myself (and occasionally another performer) as a raw material, they incorporate popular music, karaoke, obsessive behavior, humiliation, virtuosity, pride and embarrassment.

Whichever way the work takes shape, it is a transformation of materials into elegant and awkward theatrical malfunctions. Glorifying the pathetic. In these other-worldly scenes, an entirely new zany life form is born, and the failure of our culture's fantasies, and personal fantasies explored. These big, over-the-top presentations illuminate the intangible space between grand dreams and pathetic realities.