My current focus is on creating unconventional memorials or monuments for victims of heinous crimes and injustices. My ideas typically originate from events reported in the media where, despite the media exposure, the victims lack a strong voice or their voice has been suppressed by institutional powers or marginalized by mainstream stereotypes. There may also be a broad discomfort with the events or victims such that the average person does not care to engage in an extended dialogue.

Ideologies that sustain crimes against humanity and that excuse or rationalize discrimination interest me. In part, my work is an exposé of how conservatism and fundamentalist dogma can serve as the raison d'être or justification for hate-biased crimes.

In depth research is central to my work and drives my choice of materials and media. My larger installations are weighty and intentionally provocative. The viewer is challenged to not only face the crime or injustice itself but to look beyond the obvious to the complexity and multiplicity of forces at play. Text, sound and/or video often provide the contextual depth to engage the viewer in this deeper exploration. Many of my pieces employ an attraction/repulsion dynamic.

Given the gravity of my subject material, I am inclined towards bluntness. Whether or not my work induces a specific viewer response is superfluous - I am intensely interested in generating a multiplicity of responses and in the audience's interaction, both with each other and with the art itself. While my work is not ambivalent or ideologically neutral, I do attempt to avoid a personal narrative by relying on fact-based knowledge - through this, I hope to stimulate dialogue and to persuade the viewer to examine social relations that pit different cultures against each other.