Connect What is your favorite type of art to create?

Performance art, writing, and fine art are competing for the top spot. I've decided that the existential crisis of what's funny is my life's greatest quest. Second to that is the lessons that live in the paint that are beyond stroke patterns and color theory. Patience is key, you have to understand things look different in time. Every accident is just a guide, and your hands remember things your head can't. Most importantly, any layer can be the first layer if you want to start over.

Where do you find inspiration?

Purdue pharma and the opioid epidemic took my childhood friends in the greater Baltimore/DC area, death plagued my early life. I decided I didn't want to live in society anymore. I spent the last ten years as a traveling artist. Started with a back pack and worked my way up to different cars, busses, trailers. My jokes are dark, my paints are light. The inspiration often comes from how to exceed survival, how to do more than just get by with what we have. To build moments you can't just find.

What would you do with $25,000?

Last summer I did a work trade for a trailer. I was going to sell it for the money but I love it so much. It's my mobile art studio, drop the back into a stage for stand up, throw off grid parties with a clown barter black jack casino (performance art), &had all my creative friends performing & getting paid. I sold the truck to help my father through cancer. He's better now, I want to get a reliable truck so I can stop Moonlighting as a diesel mechanic, &buy so much paint, stretch my own canvas.