. Second, the interactive nature of the work lets me share these ideas with a public audience. Lastly, this

mundane maintenance activities become touchstones for serious issues: utopia, justice, social cohesion

, disenfranchisement, exploitation, commodification---is signified and negotiated. My work is autobiographical in that

creative work, which uses humor and social commentary as a bridge to connect with a diverse body of viewers

's history, traditions, and stylistic movements. He demonstrated as much in both his work in tattooing and

Martin helped me to pay attention to the making of my work, be it in the process and/or through careful