About my MFA work
I have always been obsessed with religion and mythology. When I was eleven, I moved with my family from Iowa to Wichita Falls, Texas. As a transplant in my hometown, I was intensely aware of the fascinating (and at times absurd) ways that Evangelical Christianity dominated every aspect of daily life.
When George W. Bush became President of the United States in 2000, I watched many of the cultural peculiarities I had long observed in Wichita Falls emerge onto the national stage. My early work in printmaking and sculpture reflected, often quite literally, the incongruities inherent in this aspect of the American mythos.
This body of work reached its climax while I was enrolled in the MFA program at the University of Washington, particularly in The Holy Bible: New American Revision, a modified Bible that pretty much sums up my experience of coming of age in Texas during the Bush era.