Growing up in a family of social workers (and farmers,) made mental categories seem both arbitrary and obvious to me - as well as helpful and damaging. My first visual exploration of this worldview was through the series Untitled (Social Workers and Clients.)

In order to de-segregate MFA and "outsider artists" communities, I work with both - including facilitating introductions and collaborations.

For K'ipay Portraits, my collaboration with the K'ipay school in Bogota, Colombia, I mixed my own portraits with those made by the students - whom I provided with disposable cameras. I subsequently set up up a program to provide cameras for the school and a K'ipay teacher, Miguel Suarez, continued the photo program until the school closed in 2010, due to lack of funds.

Inspired by a series of conversations with Dr. Janos Marton at the Living Museum, Queens, about the working farms of asylums in the past versus current catered dishes, I made a series of photographs from the museum and surroundings. Some of these photos now hang in the kitchen where I hosted a breakfast to reflect the bygone asylum farms.

My work for the zine was rooted in community housing for people with mental illness, addiction and criminal records, in Randers, Denmark

I acted as a facilitator for a Flux Factory and Bifrost collaboration, first bringing Kenneth Rasmussen's Bikini With Spine to Flux and then co-organizing an exchange: Flux sending an Instructional to Bifrost in Randers, Denmark.

I enlisted my carpenter brother-in-law to help Bifrost build the Flux Factory instructional - a phone booth of sorts.