I identify as a mermaid, also an absurdist, and without hesitation, as a feminist.

I have never excelled at sports or good habits, but art is the exercise I employ to flex the meat and sinews of my own soul. The primary goal of all my work is to evoke genuine emotions. And closely on the heels of feelings in general is to give a real honest try at diffusing shame, both in the world and my own susceptible brainpan. I seek to exercise the special spectral muscle that flexes in a moment of connection, compassion and intimacy. My work is an antidote to virtuality, a soft stinking bridge between myself, you, and all the others. I strive to create life-changing art; arranging situations and interaction wherein my reality and hopefully that of some of my audiences is palpably altered after the experience.

I am interested in human rights and tend to use bodies, sexuality and gender as my lens, and spectacle as my tool. Themes I return to are the tension between compulsion-revulsion; sex worker’s rights, visibility, and empowerment; mental and emotional health; healing from contemporary alienation; fluidity and convergence of personal identities; dreams and waking fantasies; spirituality; intimate inanimate objects; internalized creepiness; and finding love in everyday experiences.

I feel best when I make work that is interactive, and really enjoy interventionist methodologies. I frequently use the vocabulary of symbols from ancient and personal myths: remarkable fruits, charismatic animals, milk, honey, eggs and the genitals of plants. My work is messy, wet and joyfully falling apart. I have an availabilist approach; creating loving vengeance with art and beauty out of the materials, bodies and situations already and accessibly at hand.

Much of my work is in live performance- I believe the human body, the voice, smell, facial expressions and touch of a living person in front of you are some of the most powerful tools for eliciting a complex cocktail of feelings and associations. But I enjoy balancing the ephemeral potent moments of performance with forms that linger and disseminate: painting, comics, writing and video.

Currently I am in the process of a five year multi-media project, Teaching Myself to Love which includes performance, photography, social art, writing and video. My current focus is on Biological Clock, a sprout of Teaching Myself to Love, which is a series of performance rituals that explore time, reconciliation of the sexual and familial body, and queer fertility.