Born in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, received degrees in poetry and literary theory from Central Michigan University and an interdisciplinary Master of Fine Arts degree from SUNY Buffalo. Currently teaching sculpture, design, and art theory, making artwork focused on absurd performances and objects of skepticism.

My practice is driven by a radically skeptical relationship to language. I am not simply skeptical of certain concepts, discourses, or perspectives, but of the very means whereby we articulate all of our certainties and doubts, about ourselves and about our world.

My work deals with different aspects of communication, from simple, personal articulations of ideas and beliefs through actions and utterances, to more complex communal communications expressed through media and technology. I am also interested in the communication of the social, as in the ways we are conditioned by the laws, traditions and behavioral norms of state and cultural institutions. I am especially interested in the communication of power as it is exercised both symbolically and physically, from the soft power of a government's theatrical authority, information controls and economic policies, to the hard power of its policing, punishment, and legitimate violence.

I aim for legibility, but also mean to emphasize all the ambiguity and contradiction that assertive, didactic language can so readily obscure. In my installation and sculpture, I am creating something both intelligible and questionable. I want the terms of my work to be clear, but make no assumption about answers to the questions raised or implications suggested. As my objects express ideas of absurdity, my video performance work represents my struggle to make sense of my feelings of absurdity. By enacting and enduring difficult and repetitive metaphors for the mundane routines imposed upon all of us by the everyday requirements of living, I feel that I am able to make physically manifest my commitment to life and work despite their appearances of vanity and absurdity. I hope that the performances good-natured ridiculousness and earnest durations impart to viewers a tireless affirmation of living, even in the face of its sometimes-apparent meaninglessness and often-justifiable despair.

My work is essentially a work of philosophy, but due to a deep-seated mistrust of language, rhetoric, and the ends to which they may lead us, it is an inquiry I can maintain only via the sculptural, the physical, and the performative. I seek to create a dialogue where the questions are posed as objects, where the answers arrive not as words, but as acts.