I see artists as activators, free agents, problem solvers, tricksters, healers, liminal space dwellers and conduits for change. I use art to invent ceremony, mark meaning, and reconfigure memory in my personal experience. When this process succeeds as a catharsis, I manifest it in a parallel public practice.
I borrow from my experiences with developmental psychology, the Southern Baptist church, rural Texas towns and the concrete hyperbole of Houston, generous communities found where I travel, and contemporary tango culture.
In my recent history I spent half of a year as the primary caretaker for my terminally ill mother, and then another half in recovery from surgeries myself. I am using art to graft this experience into the commons by examining the roles of caregiver/carereceiver through experimental movement.
