Statement
Since 1975 I have worked in various media including painting and installation. My disability is schizophrenia, which has affected my work both visually and philosophically. The perceptions I have which are that of "schizophrenia" are a part of every work of art that I make.
I am very much interested in the fringe of society and how that affects culture as a whole. I have combined strong social issues such as homelessness, mental illness, suicide, mass murder, gangs, drug addiction and prostitution with progressive elements in design and form thus creating my own sub-culture language. Madness has been a dominant theme in my work having been influenced by my own diagnosis as schizophrenic and my mother's incarceration in mental hospitals for 15 years during my childhood.
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