I share a healthy American obsession with road trips, landscape, politics and sexuality with millions of my fellow Americans. My artwork has and continues to utilize various forms and techniques to travel between those places and events. I work in a number of forms ranging from sculptural installation to photography to web based media. Each of these different media has their own charm and usefulness. One of several recent projects, “Wish You Were Here,” encompassed spending several months traveling the continental United States interstate highway system in a Volkswagen van. While I drove I performed certain tasks and actions requested by other artists and cultural thinkers via a web based interface. In this work I explored what these others had determined and defined as critical American explorations. I acted as their travel avatar and experienced these experiences for them. I posted the results of their requests as I accomplished them. In the fulfillment of their requests I began to understand something about both the physical and cultural boundaries of the United States. “Wish You Were Here,” was a personal quest as well as an art project. During the endless miles and days of driving I had a great deal of time to think about my life and work. Because this project was intricately intertwined with my everyday reality I discovered that I very much enjoyed tightly weaving my life with my art. This was reconfirmed through my good fortune of being introduced to Linda Montano (founder of the Art/Life Institute) by Annie Sprinkle. I reevaluated my past work and I am now becoming less interested in making work about formal issues and more drawn to address the fabric of the everyday. Although this might seem like a mundane undertaking, at this moment my everyday ranges from creating a lost sock kit to casting porn-stars’ underwear in bronze, to trying to understand international terrorism and its impact upon our national and emotional landscape. My past work has touched upon and explored similar issues and concerns with a critical consciousness. The ways that technologies determine how we see, experience and interpret our world fascinates me. I have used and combined video, electronics, projections and other modes of analog and digital technology into my sculpture and installations. I have had a long time flirtation with photography and its ability to represent issues of power and desire. The content of my work has investigated sexuality, landscape, surveillance, interactivity and collaboration. All of my work is conceptually driven and I use whatever art forms best support and express my ideas concerning any given project. My teaching and lecturing also inform the ways that I think about and make my work. I look forward to continuing to develop and integrate the different aspects of my life and my art and then sharing them in a wide variety of venues and having a continuing dialogue with my audiences.