By using the mediums of collage, painting, video and installation, I hope to reflect social and cultural attitudes characteristic of a capitalist society.  My current focus is an investigation into the transportation industry.  Having grown up within that culture, my work has a strong documentary dimension and strives to highlight the importance of the working class in society today.

My work specifically focuses on the movement of freight, following the truck route from Laredo, TX to Kansas City, MO and then beyond into Canada.  My video work places the audience on the road with cheap commodities manufactured by multinational companies using slave labor.  Placing the spectators in a truck on the trade route them may possibly inform what we are doing when we buy at stores such as Wal-Mart and Target.  By shedding light on the NAFTA highway, I hope to expose the loss of American jobs to out-sourcing, environmental consequences such as the alterations of the land by building bigger ports and wider highways, and the increase in poor air quality by truck and freight train traffic.

In my investigation of the NAFTA highway, I have come to the conclusion that we as a society will far too often remove ourselves from responsibility.  My goal as an artist is to show our own participation in keeping the demand going.  There is nothing we need more then clean air and water, yet somehow we continue to consume items that pollute the environment.

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