ARTIST STATEMENT
As a neurodiverse, transdisciplinary artist, Culture Futurist®, and quantum storyteller, I blend art, science, and business to challenge traditional perceptions of artists' roles in society. Drawing deeply from my Appalachian heritage and diverse professional experiences, my work investigates the intersections of neuroscience, consciousness, wonder, and purpose—questioning societal norms shaped by economic production and consumption.
My artistic practice transcends physical mediums, using ideas, language, and systems as materials to explore possibilities for organizational and societal transformation. Through embodied cognition, found objects, experimental theater, and poetry, I create rituals of release and transformation, synthesizing folk traditions with fine art, brain science with myth, and spirituality with tangible realities.
Influenced by ancient cave art, the imagery of the James Webb Space Telescope, the poetry of Patti Smith and John O’Donohue, and conceptual artists like Dolly Parton, Marcel Duchamp, Cher, Joseph Beuys, Jenny Holzer, Pedro Reyes, and Félix González-Torres, my art fosters unexpected collaborations between visible and invisible forces—human and technological—to renew and reimagine the American Dream within the future of work.
SAMPLES OF CONCEPTUAL & SOCIALLY ENGAGED ART
Co-created/Curated/led as Co-founder & Chief Imaginator of IDEAS xLAB | 2012-2018
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Visual Works Samples
Series Title: COVID Series: Limitations of Light In a City on a Hill
Created: Louisville, KY | March-December 2020
Medium: Watercolor, Ink and Graphite on Paper
Size: 18in x 24in
