Posi-Active.*  That’s where I start.  My artworks involve a personal commitment to building a public conversation that’s modeled on my social ideals. Art helps me test and figure out in what, indeed, these ideals are based: ideas of neighborliness, equivalence, generative energy, and a mid-capitalism redux of the American opportunistic mentality. I like to think of art as almost a literal frame, through which I can test ideas of community, connection, in(ter)dependence, and social function through mediated form.  My artwork most often materializes as project-based installations involving sculptures, interpersonal actions and activities, documentation, and schematic drawings. The body - singular and social - inform the works in scale, scope, energy, and experience of time. This Posi-Active body of work re-orders language from a hybrid lineage of social change, sports, linguistics, and pop vernaculars. The work is focused on experientially renegotiating the routine ways we understand space and language towards a realization of new social possibilities. *Posi-Active insists the generative locus of artwork be a place of personal, positive action rather than one of general re-action.