The three essential objectives of my current artwork all surround notions of beauty, struggle, the mundane present, reality, and marginalization. The first objective is to record and celebrate the juxtaposition of a person's sense of struggle, oddity, and difference with the beauty and strength of that struggle. The second is to illuminate the present and the mundane rather than hide the truth by romanticizing the past and future. The third objective is to avoid further categorizing and exoticizing of marginalized people in the process of celebrating that difference. I achieve these goals by using mundane materials, forms, and content and in the process remain authentic to my cultures, to my generation, and to myself I simultaneously reject contemporary artistic notions of "worthiness" and "exoticness" and embrace the everyday rhythms of life as the primary means through which we construct and reconstruct ourselves and our relationships with others.</p
