After finishing art school I was applying to stores like Home Depot and Walmart. You know, places where you have to take a urine test before you get your minimum wage. Even those places wouldn't hire me. So I was lucky when I got included in a group show at the Richard Heller gallery that kind of started my art career.

The process of the body changing and making a whole human fascinates me.

After finishing art school I was applying to stores like Home Depot and Walmart. You know, places where you have to take a urine test before you get your minimum wage. Even those places wouldn't hire me. So I was lucky when I got included in a group show at the Richard Heller gallery that kind of started my art career.

I was always doing films, but the ceramics didn't come until later. I did take ceramics in university, which gave me an appetite for the medium, but I couldn't figure out what I wanted to do with it yet.

I actually prefer the silent black and white version of the Wizard Of Oz from the 20's.

I make art primarily for myself and to show my friends so I guess it's important to make art that they can connect to.

I made a tin man costume with tin foil and furnace parts because I thought it would help me be more heartless.