I invent fantastic worlds based on comic scenarios and wordplay, populated by food, household objects, or myself. These typically manifest as photographs, videos, or installations; each project’s concept determines the media I will use. My work enacts narratives or histories that satirize mass media and popular culture. I use puns, gags, and comic twists to subvert logic, language, identity, and culture.

My work is fueled by irony and paradox. I emphasize language and jokes over pure visual experience, creating meaning in the gap between images and text. I compress philosophical quandaries and cultural research into easily digestible visual jokes, genre parodies, or ridiculous puns.

My work is often collaborative, and may involve interactive elements, audience participation, or games. In addition to my solo projects, I have directed art world game shows, staged monster wrestling matches, run sideshow voting machines, and built giant lactating mountains. I am a trickster who revels in the carnival and slapstick, the ludicrous and absurd, the audacious and idiotic.

Humor is a defense against fear; the ironic and the ridiculous allow us to challenge and subvert oppressive systems, and to assert our own humanity. I employ dada methods to stimulate and challenge the viewer’s expectations, to reveal the gap between our structuring of the world and our experiences of living in it, and above all, to poke fun. Art should be funny!