Going through some old documents on my computer

Here's a list that I wrote for a quick artist statement almost 9 years ago when I was getting my MFA. I must have been influenced by Hegelian Dialectics, and it's kinda of strange to read now. It was a precursor to my MFA thesis. I kind of don't REALLY want people to read it for fear of what it says about me, then and now, but here it is anyway:

10 Reasons Why I Couldn’t Sleep Last Night
May 2, 1999


1. I didn’t drink my self to sleep or take sedatives

2. Tried to figure out whether the relationship between a human cell and it’s mitochondria is mutually beneficial or exploitative by nature.

3. Too busy thinking and forgot to masturbate.

4. Tried to figure why people expect change from a vending machine, and not a pay-phone.

5. What ant mounds would look like if the worker ants liberated themselves and became individuals.

6. Tried to figure out why George Washington was in the dictionary and not the chancellor of the Third Reich.

7. Tried to imagine the world without war and destruction.

8. Tried to imagine the Galapagos Islands without it’s diversity in finches.

9. Tried to understand Lisa Mihm’s relationship with chicken trucks and time travel.

10. Tried to understand the relationship between both monks and masturbation; and rocketry and rape.