Art disrupts the monotone of every day culture and schedule. There is potential for questioning of the everyday, the culture of desires and wants, the society of the spectacle, and the ability to enact fundamental change and upheaval in these areas. I am driven by an over-arching desire for a pragmatic and empathetic social consciousness and embrace the importance of politicized desire to enact change within stale frameworks of complacency and apathy. Sociopolitical investigations into the history and significance of urbanism and activism fuel an interdisciplinary practice where I explore power and power relationships, including notions of community, solidarity, anarchy, transgression, and displacement. These explorations inhabit various media that find common ground in the use of representation, symbols, text, and objects. I aim to create work that provokes the history and significance of activism and urbanism, opening a dialogue on empowering marginalized people and counter culture societies.

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