My work fulfills two of the needs I have as a person, the need to make art, and the need to remain as true as possible to my environmental convictions. As a post-consumer artifactist artist, I believe in practicing habits that are beneficial to maintaining the health of the earth. By using these materials to make my art, with methods that are benign to the environment, I would like to discuss possible solutions of personal re-use and recycling. To clarify what it means to be a post-consumer artifactist artist, I have written a manifesto with the guidelines I follow in my processes of making art. Writing a manifesto provided me a more emphatic genre to discuss my environmental views and the close relationship my art has to them.
Creativity exists in everyone.
My hope is that through my art, other people will become inspired to creatively address some of the environmental issues that are important to them.