This is tough. Usually my installations take twelve to eighteen months from inception to completion. My current installation series sort of became rooted in my brain way back in 1998. I was getting ready to build two huge, architectural installations which were to contain the figures I am building now. But I decided that those installations didn’t need fabricated figures when the viewers themselves could be the figures.  Skip ahead to 2013 (two years of grad school, one wedding, three very traumatic deaths, and two sons later), I had left Brooklyn, and moved near the Jersey Shore where I live now. It was here that I became obsessed with making those same figures I imagined back in 1998, and so, started my next installation, Out Me In Me Out. This, unlike my other large-scale installations, is teetering on four years of production already. And I am talking about just Part One of this series! By the time I am finished with Parts Two through Five, I will likely be surpassing ten years of production. It is therefore no accident that each “Part” will be installed as a separate show so that there are exhibitions along the way. Plus each part builds upon the next like a story, using figures from previous parts to construct the new parts. Every component and figure in each show will be able to be replicated numerous times should the sale opportunity arise. Not only can each mold yield ten replicas, but each replica will have its own unique hand-made vascular system and vary in color and opacity. So this is an ever-evolving piece. For Part One, Normal Human Female is complete in Lucite and was successfully funded through a $19,000 Kickstarter Campaign. All of the other components are done in clay and ready to be cast in Lucite upon receipt of further funding.  My ideas during these long spans of time stay pretty constant and fresh. There are definitely lulls where ideas sort of deaden, as if they have become half-baked, or even worse, over-thought. I have to be very careful when this happens, since the feeling just sort of creeps into my thoughts and kills my spirit (for a day or two). Not surprisingly, it can be a real scapegoat for NOT getting things done. It’s the price one pays for working so large. So like sex for an old married couple, you gotta keep it new and exciting! No one is going to do that for you!