Wanting to change the world and barely changing my own sheets, I embed my lifelong struggle between big goals and small steps into my practice. With the use of the readymade, canvas, paint, and wood, I set up small jokes at my own expense. Primarily enacted through sculpture and with humor as a persistent side effect, I explore everyday human experiences of success and failure, and what it means to encounter both. I employ the utilized object’s built-in cultural connotations and shift its original meaning by pairing and context with other objects. My work is both autobiographical and common, in that it deals with personal issues that I most surely share with a larger population. It focuses on the contrasting notions of responsibility & deferral, self doubt & egotism, and diligence & laziness. It's the comically sad tension that lives between these disparate ideas that makes mopping the floor sometimes feel like moving mountains.