In my work, I look to ancient civilizations and contemporary culture to consider how humans have learned to deal with the constant presence of our own mortality. I borrow from mythological stories and ancient structures to ultimately present a wry and searing look at my own attempts to deal with the unknown and unknowable. 

Many cultures and religions create supernatural worlds embedded with comforting stories to explain the unknown. I address the uncertainty in my life by creating stories specific to my experience and history. These stories began as a chronicle of my struggle to come to terms with the degenerative illness of my younger sister, the reality that first brought the universal concern of mortality to the front of my life and work. Individual stories soon morphed into an entire mythology, tracking the childhood my sister and I shared on a ranch in North Texas and the episodes and characters in my more recent history and present.

In creating these stories, I remember, imagine and distort them. I conflate them with ancient myths and structures, and give them a physical form in wood, plaster, gold, metal, paint, and other materials, precious or mundane. The mythology that results is part fiction and part fact, populated by heroes, monsters, rites and rituals. It is a mutation of my history crossed with the mythologies of cultures that succeeded at creating lasting vestiges of their own identities. I borrow their story-telling devices and strategies, to freeze, document, and rewrite my life and history. This endeavor is both self-aggrandizing and absurd, an attempt to balance the weight of uncertainty with a lasting legacy and illusion of permanence.