Throughout my academic art career I have always tried to have a solid, structured artist statement. It’s never happened. Personally, I feel as if artist statements limit my creativity. So instead of a statement here is a list of things I think about when making work: 

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• Historical ties between America and England

• America Nationalism

• Childhood and a loss of innocence 

• The Coming of Age 

• Disillusionment 

• Family Tradition and values 

• Romanticism 

• The desire to hold the past close to me 

• Memory and Remembrance 

• Loneliness 

• Masculinity 

• Christian Nationalism 

• Rituals of Catholicism 

• Admiration for and rebellion from traditional gender roles 

• The American South and Conservatism 

• The relationship between gender and food and beverage

• Class and privilege customs in regards to food