My work takes inspiration from everything I hate and everything I love. I use comedic satire to address and point out my qualms with contemporary American culture. This satire I present is influenced by pop culture, children’s literature, music, and film. I typically involve recognizable quotes from these influences to title or adorn my sculptures. As well I take advantage of these recognizable influences to give the viewer hints towards the content of my work. The titles of my sculptures provide the viewer with lenses in which to understand my work. The appearance and form of my sculptures are heavily influenced by the Funk Art movement of the mid to late 1900s. For me using whimsical characters, objects, and scenes is one of the best ways to make fun of and critique aspects of society. As well, whimsy is a great contrast to the more serious issues of the world and offers a multifaceted way of viewing injustice and tragedy. A big part of my sculptures is making fun of people or ideas, I like to dissect contemporary issues and views by making them look silly. I love creating masculine characters and adorning them with bright colors, funny hats, and small hands. Using proportions, color and form I can give the viewer an idea of the personality of a character or object. When I create a body of work, I want to create a world that mirrors our own but exaggerated in the way of depiction. I like cartoon-ize everything to reveal their truths. Sometimes instead of making a character I make an object. In place of sculpting a landlord I have sculpted a gun on a pedestal covered in white glaze to make fun of how a landlord will slather white paint over anything. In this way the sculpture stands as a symbol. Symbols are a very common motif in my work. Symbols I use include, Xs, Os, tic tac toe, hopscotch, monkey bars, numbers, and the alphabet. These symbols reference back to my influence from children’s literature. A focal part of my work is identifying serious issues and juxtaposing them with the innocence and silliness of childhood. My favorite, and most used symbols are the X, O, and tic tac toe. These three symbols are some of the most recognizable and serve me in expressing my work's content. X is recognized as something ending, off limits, two things intersecting, or death. O offers the opposite. O (or a circle) is often recognized as something continuous, infinite, or life as it relates to a cell. The tic tac toe game involves these two symbols at play where a simple narrative can play out between the meaning of these two symbols. Ultimately, I combine my influences, recognizable symbols, and references to pop culture to create sculptures that satirize and critique American culture