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It would have to be connected with performance art somehow, either in the front of the house or the back. I was myopic about this from fourth grade on.

Performance art is the ultimate in creativity. Since it has so many possibilities at creativity, it's essence tends to become creativity.

I think performance art comes from a simple place of wanting to express things beyond just sound.

Performance art can involve the audience with taste, smell and sounds not available with electronic media and not practical with conventional theater. This is due to the usually small audience.

Performance art is about joy, about making something that's so full of kind of a wild joy that you really can't put into words.

Performance has to be mainstream art. This is what I'm fighting for.

I honestly always thought my Master's in Fine Arts would get me further in the acting world than knowing how to work an espresso machine!

The goal of art-making in general is communication.

The only projects that excite me have to be tied to some aspect of social change. No matter how beautiful, a coffee book doesn't exactly move you to change the way you cook or eat.

The best art is realized when you can share the experience of making of it and not just the presentation of it, so that the audience is part of the creation and not just part of the consumption. Then it becomes much more full-bodied and robust.