My work embraces the healing potential of collaborative artistic processes. I co-create with makers, performers, places, institutions, plants, animals, ancestors, trash, and my own subconscious. The objects and scenarios that result allow many constituent elements to have a voice and a role within the whole. I release control, allowing memory, chance, intuition and emotions to guide the free interplay of forms and images drawn from personal history, spiritual systems, mythological archetypes and pop culture. I create videos, performances and installations that utilize this intuitive and collaborative approach. I also facilitate workshops and events that are more freeform in nature and explore what is possible when many individuals come together in service of a larger purpose. THESIS SHOW is an attempt at blending these two modes of creation.

The space created by THESIS SHOW is iterative and reflective, a sort of ephemeral town square for the exploration of the potentials and limits of creativity, play and collaboration. For a finite period of time, a portion of the Art Department gallery will function as a responsive, shifting nexus of activity within the Wayne State University educational community. The project aims to bring together students from the arts, communications, education and other disciplines, as well as contributors from the broader Detroit community. Participants are invited to co-create a space that acts as a living laboratory for collaborative creative practice. The aspiration is that the space will become a functioning ecosystem that changes, evolves, and allows its members to envision, build and shape new realities together.