As an artist, I am eternally chasing that moment when memory and experience meet and catalyze one another. I think a lot about the paths we take
in our lives, and how our choices lead to our stories. Our stories become us and we become them. Our individual truth lies in our experience of the
world. I love the idea that universal truth, then, is created when we share our stories with one another. The paths we choose create our stories,
which create what we have to say to the people we meet, which create the history of the world. 

The combination of my interest in storytelling with my interest in science has led to the crux of my artistic practice: the attempt to re-route tools of
measurement to quantify unquantifiable things. For example, I am now working with EEG and MRI readings of my own brain in the process of
remembering. Memory theory and mnemonic devices come into play in almost every piece I make. 

On my desk there is a quote on a Post-It note: "Perhaps my experiments have not been as successful a yours, Henry. But science, like love, has its
little surprises." This was said by Dr. Pretorious in Bride of Frankenstein, and as far as I1m concerned, it1s the best summation of my artistic
pursuits thus far. The thing I am most interested in as an artist is finding a way to capture the poetry to be found in medicine, in science. I believe
it is my responsibility as an artist to understand current technology and to shape the way these new tools are used. By establishing contact and
collaboration with the fields of science and medicine, I can become a part of something much greater than myself and my own sequestered artistic
practice.  

Plus, I want access to the machines.