Connect What is your favorite type of art to create?

I favor sculpture and installation when it comes to creation. I prefer to create what I think the world needs, rather than what it wants to buy. I love to make work that disrupts visual literacy and displaces the viewer from the world of hermeneutic presumption and visual abbreviation to a state of abjection, or force new experiences of nuanced states, such as simultaneously identifying with and against external stimuli.

Where do you find inspiration?

I find inspiration in mundanity, misunderstandings, communication bypassing, and most importantly, my own dreams and nightmares. I feel inspired also by art manifestos and critical theory. I feel compelled to disprove sweeping generalizations; that inspires me too. Additionally, visions quite actually come to me, whether I’m the shower or the middle of a conversation. I have my antennae raised to the muses; I need only receive their blessings.

What would you do with $25,000?

I would execute an exhibition of installation art in a large arena like a warehouse. I would create a dynamic, kinetic art installation involving crashed cars. I would invite fellow artists to add to the show. I would present our manifestations of the zeitgeist instead of selling the same boring paintings as everyone else.