General Hospital 

Humor plays an important role in my work. I have often used it as a device to bring attention to more critical issues. I have found over the course of my artistic career that creating humorous objects breaks down barriers and allows for the beginning of an open and genuine dialog between my art, the audience and myself. In this way, humor transforms my personal experience into something universal.

In my current body of work, General Hospital, my humorous approach has not changed although the impetus for the work has. A recent series of events in my life has shifted my work towards themes of healing, comfort and self-preservation. While reflecting on the general theme of mortality, certain materials and processes personally spoke to my conceptual concerns. This body of work confronts tragic themes while again exploring the relationship between humor and tragedy.

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