That's Okay,

I have always loved the book Catcher in the Rye. Interestingly, the word ‘phony’ is used thirty-five times throughout the book. I think about this word a lot, in that not being a phony seems like a pretty tall order, especially when it comes to being an artist and making artwork. For my part, I would like to make art that is cynical, interesting to look at, and if at all possible raise some modicum of interest in the viewer, without of course being, in the words Holden Caulfield, "Phony as hell". Not being phony is hard because one must balance the indoctrination of cultural-pop against one’s own creative abilities. In That's Okay, all of the objects are phony, in that none of them are really made from the material they appear to be, they all want to be something else.