Specific thoughts, words and ideas.

The will to act.
Entertainment.
Art does not think, people think.
Campfire artists vs. microwave artists.
Make something significant than the last.
Art is manipulative.

Haircuts and paste, pretty tulips, saw(teeth), Mickey mouse, Mexico, land, buckled ankles, maximum security prisons, pedestal, glue, knife, soil, broken handle(wood), Donald, Canada, warm water, red Santa, knees, cordless vitrine, hairspray, spoon wound, murky barf, bugs, sizzling steak, fun, Secrets coming, map, blow lines, purple dragon, a minimal shell with lots of guts, possess if you can,  motor damage, rape, butterflies, bananas, Wisconsin death trip, fruit cocktail fluff, an uncomfortable laugh, what a mess…I missed my therapist, wonky worms and kingfishers, volume, devil music, hand on knee, water logged sports magazines, likeness, black fire, geodesic dome, blood, dead inmates, aunts and uncles, rip out of your skin, bar, land it, jump like you mean it, dime weaponry, dog ass, thumb days, calendar, great lakes, Muslim postman, post nasal drip, the last Kleenex, dug-up biblical archaeology, bells and whistles, edge-center-edge, kiss of death, Clorox bleach, seven- layer-thick dander, stink eye, Motel 6, gray, three sheets to the wind, shrimp rolls, nail it, slippery meow, mucho classic, grilled cheese fingernail sandwich, elbow scabs, throw up in your mouth, potluck dinners, chocolate dipped white cookies, peppermint snakes, white, leper, sherbet zebra, catapult, brown ping-pong, uncertainty at the bottom of your drink.

I lost the loss.
I rely on gesture and never work too slowly.
I was raised listening to my mother speak in tongues.
I can make a great salad.
Please stand by..

HONORS AND EDUCATION:
Union League Civic Arts Foundation 2001 Visual Arts Scholarship, Civic and Art Foundation, Chicago IL 2001
University of Illinois at Chicago, BFA May 2001 
School Faculty Prize for Studio Arts 
Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design 1996