For many years I have been working with sound, film/video, photo, sculpture, etc. to explore cultural images, stereotypes, and the constructs of social and religious identity often by exaggerating them or through personal stories and self-irony. As a small child, I moved to Salt Lake City, Utah, which is particular with it’s dominant religious culture. At sixteen, I lived on an island dominanted by a Navy Base near the Mexican border. I went to New York City at the age of seventeen and was exposed to a diverse culture of immigrants whom I was completely stimulated and inspired by. By 1989, I was living in San Francisco, California, where I began working with film and video at the California College of Art. In 1998, I went to Berlin as an exchange student at the Universitat der Kunste in the class of Rebecca Horn.
