I am a conceptual artist and my image-based installations explore issues relating to international trade and commerce, farmer’s rights, race and human rights. My goal is to create work that is simultaneously attractive and repulsive. Though the subject of my work varies, the common threa

Sometimes I think I'm like Tennessee Williams; I wait for the click - I wait - but it doesn't kick in.

My 19th century English literature professor tried to persuade me to dismiss exploring the artistic merit in heavy metal and hip hop and study "more serious art forms", and it only further strengthened my resolve to go right ahead and academically assess these two maligned genres.

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