Art and time contextualize our experience and influence identity individually and culturally.

My work deals with the persuasion of experiences in various locations, drawing connections that compel us to consider and reflect.

Sound and image thus urge us to reevaluate our surroundings and ourselves.

Sound has been a continuous component of my work during the past decade. Working from a formal incorporation in earlier installation-based works such as Transience to a primary means of expression in my most recent performance and collaborative works such as YouTunes and Purple Reign.

Newer projects, such as YouTunes, and the recently enhanced Somnambutable, (now with motion graphics display) operate at the individual and social nexus of visual and “musical” experience. While works such as YouTunes explore an outward and direct social connection to the act of music making and participation, Somnambutable explores a private individual and physical experience of the sculptural and resonant properties sound has on the human body.

Woody’s Ghost (selected as part of Conflux: Art and Technology Festival 2008), a series of spoken and performative interventions taking place in locations around New York City, referenced Woody Guthrie’s music, writings and philosophy, recontextualized in present day. Participation was explored through the use of social networking and internet while the interventionist nature of live music in specific locations in Guthrie’s life served as venues for the performative work.

Additional single-channel projects indicate this trajectory of my work—Cell Colony Collapse (for the Museum of Science and Art’s astronomical observatory) and Quraysh Ali Lansana’s spoken word performance (with instrumental group accompaniment for Chicago Calling) a collaborative project for Chicago residents with those living in other areas of the globe.

Previous studies of cultural sound and imagery occur in Processional (video/audio-taped in Antigua, Guatemala during Santa Semana) also allude to the convergence of social and sound interaction.

My interests in collaboration reflect upon my desire to use art to connect, not only with other artists in order to create the work, but with an audience in order to fully complete the work in an experiential way. The components of sound and time are my media, manifesting themselves in live experience, cinematic video, sculpture, and installation-based works. The majority of my work is site-specific, as the location is a determining factor in the concept of a piece, and plays an equally important role as the viewer, listener, participant, or audience.