How I explain myself to myself

I am an interdisciplinary artist who creates hybrid forms of performance, music, images, and philosophy. In my explorations and meditations about awareness, attention, and the performative moment, I endeavor to ride a shifting line between singing and speaking, talking about thinking and thinking about talking, and live and mediated images. My intrepid curiosity about being present in front of people has kept me writing performative texts, plays, “sung plays”.  I have become increasingly interested in form, and how a composition of whatever form, whether musical, body, text, image, curriculum, could be organized to best sculpt the attention of the audience.  This sculpting of attention has become the primary tool I have as an artist and has been a cornerstone of my intention in the last 20 years of my work.  I am committed to an ethical creativity process, meaning explicit agreements, a collaborative attitude, and always working towards a fair pay for labor.  I am determined to be alive to my muse, even though I am aging, and the demands of life have been insistent, and to that end I place fortitude as a high value in my goals.  I believe in changing the world, one imagination at a time, and that includes myself.