This collaboration works like a two-man band. Individual contribution and influence is only best seen in the studio during the building process. These artworks are not of one mind or maker. It's an experiment, in which we bring ideas to a center, re-configure them and produce art in a loosely constructed manner. The results are sometimes mixed. Materials, technique, style, and motive vary as we take different approaches to complete the work. Evaluating the definable meaning of "collaboration" is actually a focus of the project as a whole. The beginning was about bringing old drawings, unfinished paintings, and plans for unmade work, and work to be remade, together. Lay everything out and start looking for interesting connections between projects. Literally place drawings next to one another and connect them, take sculptures apart and redesign them, let someone else try to see the end of an unfinished piece of art and push it in a completely new direction.
My personal interest is how we all communicate our lives and memories to one another and how mass communication and advertising define our personal stories.

Consumer media, historical documentation and events, art and design, detritus, daily grind, wants, needs, etc. all jammed together in a new, constantly changing and folding design. This mode of thought, as an angle for making artwork, views and attempts to interpret and display a mixture of images and information, yet is selective and sensitive to the new developing narrative and physical composition of the work at hand. Two egos splitting a piece of art seems difficult, but the decisions are made quickly and without lengthy discussion. At the initiation of this collaboration, we decided to attempt to bring ideas, techniques, knowledge, style, works-in-progress and so on, together. Create a pool of work and knowledge, a new combined experience, which would allow for stagnant artwork to find completion or final end. This body of work on exhibit is the product of that collaboration. It is a documentation of the attempt as well as the execution of this work. The end result is the appearance of a body of work, perhaps stylistically averaged into what may look like one artists creations. Common responses to the work are, "Who made this piece?", "who did what part of what?", "who painted this area?", "who welded that to this?", "who designed this?", "who's idea was this?"…. the answer to any and all questions is "whoever". The painted image is not always the painter's idea, the sculptures material is often dictated by the piece, not a material or process we are most comfortable with or knowledgeable about, but what may best serve the end result. This effort and willingness to use new and unusual materials, establishes an acceptability of certain failures as part of the finished work. Paint, drawing materials, wood, metal, plaster, concrete, plastic, found objects, personal objects, etc. are incorporated in this work. Interests and inspirations are numerous and the work often changes without discussion. Separate narratives are at play.

Is this work original or perhaps re-packaged ideas? It can be viewed as documentation of a collaborative process or a finished body of artwork.