In the compartmentalized landscape of western education, specialization is often considered a key to success. And a focus on the individual often corresponds with a pedagogical fragmentation of the senses. To counter this, Maurice Merleau-Ponty observed that "the body is our anchorage in a world," indicating that embodiment is both a space and an experience-- the place at which the culture and the individual converge.

As a student and practitioner of martial arts, visual arts and african-derived drumming and dance, I consider myself an interdisciplinary artist informed by traditional cultures. I have studied many time-honored practices that seek to understand how the body and the group alike form a single, interdependent whole.

I am thus committed to harmonizing academic distinctions, such as those commonly dividing visual and physical cultural sensibilities, into a single, embodied form of practice.

The Plus sign will never fight against the Minus sign. (Alfred Jarry)