ART IS AN ACT OF FAITH. 

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One of the greatest lessons I've learned this year is the value of suspended energy: readiness, availability. Or as Eugenio Barba says, "sats." This is the moment the conductor raises his bow to begin the movement - time seems to stand still before magic erupts. How does one prepare for this moment? By practicing their instrument for hours on end, by ingraining the muscles with memories of notes, by finding routine, discipline, liturgy. 

The works you observed on this site are the results of my liturgical practice. My manifesto guides me as I move, write, and create over and over again until the divine sauce of inspiration can collide resulting in the unfinished products you have viewed.  No part of me pretends or desires the work here to be presented as finished. As they are reactions to their context, they will change with them as well. Perhaps they will collide with each other, find iterations in other mediums, fade into the realm of curriculum vitae. Perhaps in their next life they will be granted names, homes, faces, awards. Perhaps I will too. 

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When you google Laurie Anderson she pops up as "american artist". Not actress, musician, painter, line drawer, dancer- just artist. That is all that I aspire to, if anything. The most I can do at the moment is keep practicing liturgy. Keep living by my manifesto. 

In time, in my discernment, in passion, in compassion. I will keep producing, keep responding to my present, keep pushing my boundaries. Maybe I, like Picasso, will have a blue stage.

Maybe I,

will keep using my body,

my sounds,

my hands,

my mind,

and the colors that I see the world

to live with the availability

to find artistic stimulus in the soup of life.

The liturgy of creation guides me. And when in doubt, I always remind myself

that art is an act of faith.