ARTIST STATEMENT
I am an experimental and experiential artist. I amalgamate my scientific and technical experiences, my involvement with environmental and waste management issues, and musical and art and performance experiences in my art work.

I employ lightweight materials to create work that invites the viewer to reconsider orthodoxy about devotion, duplication, reproduction, mass, gravity, optics, contours, waste, myth, religion, social symbols, sound, smell, environment and things and consumerism.

The work submitted explores complex relationships between technology and political and economic colonialism on fairness, food, politics, culture, wealth, environmental impact, etc. The elephant, a mystical, magical and majestic spiritual force that has walked the earth unchanged for thousands of years, has special meaning to many cultures, primarily in the former colonized world, and is now a symbol of extinction and the environmental, political, resource distribution and cultural consequences of colonization and technology.

The other is Inspired by the “reclining Buddha”, an important symbol of devotion, existence, but also passage into Nirvana, a state of nothingness. Humans discard materials, such as the ones used here in the hope that they achieve “nirvana”. That rarely happens, as we know from environmental impact of our wasteful habits and practices. A kachina, in Native American culture, represents the natural world, a natural phenomenon, or a concept, among others.